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“El cursillo aconsejaba a la mujer trabajadora que quisiera mantener la compostura repetir dos veces al día las siguientes frases:
La compostura es el equilibrio perfecto, una ecuanimidad del cuerpo y la mente, una serenidad perfecta en cualquier entorno social.
Vestimenta elegante, limpieza inmaculada y modales perfectos contribuyen a lograr la seguridad en una misma.”

Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark: Frases en inglés

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

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Muriel Spark libro 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 libro Aiding and Abetting

Fuente: 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 libro The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Fuente: 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 libro The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Fuente: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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

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Muriel Spark libro The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Fuente: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“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 libro The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Fuente: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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

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Muriel Spark libro The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Fuente: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“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 libro The Girls of Slender Means

Fuente: The Girls of Slender Means

“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 libro The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Fuente: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“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 libro Memento Mori

Fuente: Memento Mori

“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 libro The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Fuente: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“Never apologise, never explain.”

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

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Muriel Spark libro The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Variante: It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Fuente: 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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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 libro 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 libro The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Fuente: 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 libro The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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