Muriel Spark - Life Quotes

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Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

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Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. It is possible for parents to be corrupted or improved by their children.

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Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

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There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.

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From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be 'Beware of men bearing flowers.'

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If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

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Since the story of my own life is just as much constituted of the secrets of my craft as it is of other events, I might as well remark here that to make a character ring true it needs must be in some way contradictory, somewhere a paradox.

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One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

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If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. No other practice so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one -surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.

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The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable contribution to literature through its wit, style or wisdom; another kind is that whose main importance lies in the provision of a background to their author's life. Especially in the correspondence of great writers and poets, these two factors are very often combined...

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