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


Muriel Spark

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MURIEL SPARK To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
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MURIEL SPARK One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
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MURIEL SPARK Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
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MURIEL SPARK I'm not saying anything against the Modern side.
Modern and Classical, they are equal...
MURIEL SPARK It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
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MURIEL SPARK  I'd rather deal with a rogue than a fool.
MURIEL SPARK Nothing infuriates people more than their own lack of spiritual insight.
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MURIEL SPARK I am putting old heads on your young shoulders,' Miss Brodie had told them at the time.
MURIEL SPARK O where shall I find a virtuous woman, for her price is above rubies.
MURIEL SPARK  One's prime is the moment one was born for. 
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MURIEL SPARK The Brodie set did not for a moment doubt that she would prevail. As soon expect Julius Caesar to ap...
MURIEL SPARK ... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority.
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MURIEL SPARK 4:15. Not 4 not 4:30 but 4:15. She thought to intimidate me with the use of quarter hours.
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MURIEL SPARK Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
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MURIEL SPARK Hildegard had long felt that sentimentality was a luxury she could not afford.
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