Muriel Spark - People Quotes

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Oh, the trifles, the people, that get on your nerves when you have a neurosis!

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It isn't necessarily the great and famous beauty spots we fall in love with. As with people, so with places. Love is unforeseen, and we can all find ourselves affectionately attached to the minor and the less obvious.

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People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.

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I have a great desire to make people smile — not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.

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We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later.

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After I became a success, people would ring up and ask me out. I'd say, 'But I'm writing'. And they'd say, 'I see. You're too grand for us now.' And I'd say, 'Actually, I've always been too grand for you.'

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Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.

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Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions.

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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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