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Dame Muriel Spark, DBE war eine britische Schriftstellerin.

Gemeinsam mit Graham Greene und Evelyn Waugh zählt sie zu den britischen Schriftstellern, die zum Katholizismus konvertierten. Nach Greenes Tod im Jahre 1991 wurde sie wiederholt als die bedeutendste lebende britische Schriftstellerin bezeichnet. Ihren Ruf begründete sie mit dem 1961 veröffentlichten Roman Die Blütezeit der Miss Jean Brodie, dem das Magazin The New Yorker eine ganze Ausgabe widmete. Dieser Roman gilt unverändert als ein Klassiker der englischsprachigen Literatur im 20. Jahrhundert. Die britische Zeitung The Guardian nahm den Roman 2009 in die Liste der 1000 Romane auf, die jeder gelesen haben muss. Die Time wählte ihn zu einem der besten 100 englischsprachigen Romane, die zwischen 1923 und 2005 veröffentlicht wurden, und 2015 wählten 82 internationale Literaturkritiker und -wissenschaftler ihn zu einem der bedeutendsten britischen Romane. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Februar 1918 – 13. April 2006  •  Andere Namen موریل اسپارک
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“Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.”

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Muriel Spark buch The Comforters

The Comforters (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1957) p. 133

“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”

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Muriel Spark buch Aiding and Abetting

Quelle: Aiding and Abetting

“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 intrusion.”

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Muriel Spark buch The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Quelle: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), P. 36

“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.”

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Muriel Spark buch The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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“Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.”

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Muriel Spark buch The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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

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Muriel Spark buch The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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“Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.”

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“it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.”

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Muriel Spark buch The Girls of Slender Means

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“It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.”

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Muriel Spark buch The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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“If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.”

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“It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.”

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Muriel Spark buch Memento Mori

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“These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.”

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Muriel Spark buch The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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“It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.”

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Muriel Spark buch The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Variante: It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Quelle: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), P. 92

“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.”

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Muriel Spark

The Hothouse by the East River (London: Macmillan, 1973) p. 12

“The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.”

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Muriel Spark buch The Comforters

The Comforters (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1957) p. 28

“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.”

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Muriel Spark buch The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Quelle: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), P. 5

“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.”

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Muriel Spark buch The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Quelle: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), P. 8

“She writes well and concisely, and this has tended to obscure the psychological superficiality and sheer petty malice of her content.”

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Muriel Spark

Martin Seymour-Smith, Guide to Modern World Literature, (London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1973] 1975), vol. 1, p. 333.
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