Muriel Spark
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
Background
- Born in
- Edinburgh
- Educated at
- Heriot-Watt UniversityJames Gillespie's High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire🏆 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres🏆 Golden PEN Award🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature🏆 Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full."
"I am putting old heads on your young shoulders," Miss Brodie had told them at that time, "and all my pupils are the crème de la crème."
"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 intrus…"
"It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist."
"She writes well and concisely, and this has tended to obscure the psychological superficiality and sheer petty malice of her content."
"The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" - "Miss Jean Brodie oma parimas eas", 1989"
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1918
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Birth2006
Died
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