Muriel Spark

Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "All my pupils are the crme de la crme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend dead war friends: "Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time life: "Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind: "No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live little time life grow: "One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must live it to the full."
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