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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.
— Muriel Spark
Tags: companionship

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All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.
— Muriel Spark
Tags: girl, age, me, life
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
— Muriel Spark
Tags: great, art, science, life
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.
— Muriel Spark
Tags: something, soul, me, education
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
— Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Tags: soul, education
People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and write, they can afford any of the instruments of book writing such as pens, paper, computers, tape recorders, and generally by the time they have reached this decision, they have had a simple education.
— Muriel Spark Aiding and Abetting
Tags: writing-process, writing-books, writing-advice, writing
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