Quotes by Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark

[My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy […], I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I did.

Being In Love

Imagination

Long

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn’t got a chance.

Chance

Revolution

Tyrants

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that’s their order of importance.

Art

Philosophy

Science

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.

Being In Love

Hovering

Love Is

Beware of men bearing flowers.

Flower

Men

Beware the ire of the calm.

Calm

everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.

Artist

Lost

Wonder

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it’s not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it’s not fact.

Facts

Fiction

Mind

For those who like that sort of thing,” said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, “That is the sort of thing they like.

Edinburgh

Missing

Voice

Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

Euphemism

Frankness

Rudeness

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Being In Love

Calm

Cat

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Certain

Chance

Character

Children

Christian

Debt

Depends

Dream

Edinburgh

Euphemism

Facts

Family

Fiction

Firsts

Flower

Forget

Frankness

Funny

Girl

Giving

Goodness

Growing Up

Honorable

Hovering

Humor

Imagination

Inspirational

Inspirational Life

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Interviews

Long

Looks

Lost

Love Is

Lying

May

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Quotes by Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn’t got a chance.

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that’s their order of importance.

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.

Beware of men bearing flowers.

Beware the ire of the calm.

everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it’s not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it’s not fact.

For those who like that sort of thing,” said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, “That is the sort of thing they like.

Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

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