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Muriel Spark [1918-2006] Scottish

Rank: 104
Novelist

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'.

Age, Education, Love, Parenting, Religion, Science, Smile

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It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.	Love	101
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.	Smile	102
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.	Age	103
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.	Parenting	104
One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.		105
I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.		106
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.	Religion, Science	107
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.		108
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.	Age	109
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.	Education	110
All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.		111
I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.		112
If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.		113
I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.		114

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