Frases de Muriel Spark

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  

✵ 1. Fevereiro 1918 – 13. Abril 2006   •   Outros nomes موریل اسپارک
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Muriel Spark: Frases em inglês

“Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.”

Muriel Spark livro The Comforters

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

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

Muriel Spark livro Aiding and Abetting

Fonte: Aiding and Abetting

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

Muriel Spark livro The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Fonte: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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

Muriel Spark livro The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Fonte: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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

Muriel Spark livro The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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

Muriel Spark livro 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.”

Muriel Spark livro The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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

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

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