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Muriel Spark

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Muriel Spark Quotes

Total quotes: 5

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Muriel Spark

Birthname

Birthday: February 1, 1918

Death: April 13, 2006

Educated At: Heriot-Watt University

Nationality: United Kingdom

Occupations: Editor, Playwright, Literary Critic, Novelist, Screenwriter

Total quotes: 5

“It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.”

— Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel

Tagged: Silence, Silence Speaks, Speech, Communication

“Shall we say I had fun with my imagination?”

— Muriel Spark, Introduction

Tagged: Imagination, Creativity, On Being A Writer, Imagining New Worlds

“Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years.”

— Muriel Spark, The Driver's Seat (New Directions Paperbook)

Tagged: Life, Losing Touch With Yourself, Sad, Bad Life, Boring Life, first lines of books

“Not a leaf repeats itself, we only repeat the word.”

— Muriel Spark, Autumn Leaves

Tagged: Repetition of The Same, The World Is Always New, fascination, Seeing Seeing

“The boys, as they talked to the girls from Marcia Blaine School, stood on the far side of their bicycles holding the handlebars, which established a protective fence of bicycle between the sexes, and the impression that at any moment the boys were likely to be away.”

— Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel

Tagged: first lines of books, gender, School

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