“Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.”
The Comforters (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1957) p. 133
Dame Muriel Spark foi uma romancista escocesa premiada. Em 2008, o jornal The Times inclui-a na lista dos 50 maiores escritores britânicos desde 1945. Wikipedia
“Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.”
The Comforters (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1957) p. 133
“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
Fonte: Aiding and Abetting
“Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.”
Fonte: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
“It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.”
Variante: It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Fonte: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), P. 92
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.”
The Comforters (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1957) p. 28
Martin Seymour-Smith, Guide to Modern World Literature, (London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1973] 1975), vol. 1, p. 333.
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