Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
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'...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 February 1918
artist wonderful century
How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century,
want assertiveness sooner-or-later
sooner or later I do what I want to do.
rudeness euphemism frankness
Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.
memorable boredom should
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
years people remember
It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.
calm
Beware the ire of the calm.
years important remember
These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.
being-in-love love-is hovering
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.
dream character wonder
I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
personality trying forget
...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;...
years old-fashioned
I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
perseverance winning victory
Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great
romantic-love doe impossible
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
tyrants revolution chance
A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.