Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer. Muriel Spark More Quotes by Muriel Spark More Quotes From Muriel Spark Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts. Muriel Spark debtrunning Beware of men bearing flowers. Muriel Spark flowermen The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure. Muriel Spark sacrificepleasurehappiness I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't. Muriel Spark afterlifebelievecountry The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man. Muriel Spark unjustdeceptionmen New York, home of the vivisectors of the mind, and of the mentally vivisected still to be reassembled, of those who live intact, habitually wondering about their states of sanity, and home of those whose minds have been dead, bearing the scars of resurrection. Muriel Spark new-yorkmindhome Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. Muriel Spark inspirational-lifefamilychildren Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile. Muriel Spark communistfascistssmile For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like. Muriel Spark edinburghvoicemissing it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls. Muriel Spark girlwantmen 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. Muriel Spark mindfactsfiction I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third. Muriel Spark popechristianfirsts How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century. Muriel Spark centuryartistwonderful If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding. Muriel Spark serenitycatwriting Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness. Muriel Spark euphemismfranknessrudeness we have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing. Muriel Spark realmindsex Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first Muriel Spark truth-and-beautygoodnessfirsts The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. Muriel Spark soulrootsmean Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities. Muriel Spark mentalitypeople [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. Muriel Spark being-in-loveimaginationlong
