~ Muriel Spark Quotes ~

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Muriel Spark Quotes


An award-winning Scottish novelist.
Dame Muriel Spark, DBE (1 February 1918 in Edinburgh – 13 April 2006 in Florence) was an award-winning Scottish novelist. In 2008 The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

Here are some famous quotes by Muriel Spark.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.

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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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Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

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When a noble life has prepared old age it is not decline that it reveals but the first days of immortality.

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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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[Being in love] is something like poetry. Certainly you can analyze it and expound its various senses and intentions but there is always something left over mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.