Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark, DBE, CLit, FRSE, FRSL was a Scottish novelist. In 2008, the Times newspaper named Spark as No. 8 in its list of 'the 50 greatest British writers since 1945'...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 February 1918
girl men want
it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
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From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.
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The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.
men deception unjust
The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.
people mentality
Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities ...
smile men doe
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
flower men
Beware of men bearing flowers.
technology men medicine
No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.
heads la pupils putting
I am putting old heads on your young shoulders...all my pupils are the creme de la creme.
attempting eyes grasp logic neither nor order sat since thoughts
Godfrey's wife, Charmian, sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order, which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology
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All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.
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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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Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
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I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.