Muriel Spark Short Quotes

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One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

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I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.

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It was one thing to applaud justice, another to bring it about.

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I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

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We have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing.

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Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

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

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Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.

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

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It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

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Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.

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It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

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She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

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Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

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A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

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The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.

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How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century,

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For those who like that sort of thing... that is the sort of thing they like.

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

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

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I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

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I am putting old heads on your young shoulders…all my pupils are the creme de la creme.

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Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great

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So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

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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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Everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.

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Ben was an intellectual, and intellectuals, say what you like, seemed to last longer than anyone else.

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'Invariably, a man you feed both ends,' Gertrude says. 'You have to learn to cook and to do the other.'

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Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.

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Jealousy... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

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