Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

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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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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion.

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

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

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

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These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.... One's prime is elusive.

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Outwardly she differed from the rest of the teaching staff in that she was still in a state of fluctuating development, whereas they had only too understandably not trusted themselves to change their minds, particularly on ethical questions, after the age of twenty.

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It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

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

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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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