Quotes About Muriel

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.

But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.

Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.

I soon adapted to Muriel's fascination with gay bars. Whenever she came to the city, she explained to me, she came to go barring. She never felt truly alive except in gay bars, she said, and needed them like a shot in the arm.

He had just spent half an hour cross-examining his butler. Proom's attempts at honorable evasion had withered before the tactics that Rupert had perfected in four years of dealing with his men…. His anger, though perfectly contained, far outstripped Muriel's own.

Dear Emily, This week I went to the library. I got Black Beauty. It is about a horse. It is the best book I ever read. I read it three times. I have to go now. Write soon. Yours truly, Muriel. P.S. Mama sends her love.

don't have nightmares," Muriel said. "I give them to other people.

Sex is all right" he says "It's all right at the time, and it's all right before" says Lise, "but the problem is afterwards. That is, if you're not an animal. Most of the time, afterwards is pretty sad.

I think she's too ignorant to be a witch.

Good mawning,' she replied, in the corridors, flattening their scorn beneath the chariot wheels of her superiority...

The nerve of the woman,' said Milly, 'to commit suicide from my house!

In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work of the mysterious Muriel Herbert, a few of whose songs they had come across.

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

Muriel sometimes put her emotions on highest exhibit by exaggerating a suppression of them.