Muriel Spark Quotes
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If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.
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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
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A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.
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everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.
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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
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If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
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The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.
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She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.