Muriel Spark Quotes
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[My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy [...], I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I did.
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Beware the ire of the calm.
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I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.
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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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I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.
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Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.
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Beware of men bearing flowers.
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Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.
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Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.
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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 one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.
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I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
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The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
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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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Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
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we have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing.
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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.
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Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.
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If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .
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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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everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.
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Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
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Try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis.
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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
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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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There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.
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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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Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.
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It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up.
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sooner or later I do what I want to do.
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