Muriel Spark
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"Dame Muriel Spark", Order of the British Empire / DBE, Royal Society of Literature/CLit, Royal Society of Edinburgh / FRSE, Royal Society of Literature/FRSL was an award-winning Scottish novelist. In 2008 The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of "the 50 greatest British literature/British writers since 1945", at No. 8.

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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.

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

It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.

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

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

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.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.