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A life like mine annoys most people; they go to their jobs every day, attend to things, give orders, pummel typewriters, and get two or three weeks off every year, and it vexes them to see someone else not bothering to do these things and yet getting away with it, not starving, being lucky as they call it.

— Muriel Spark The Portobello Road (1958)

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

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

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

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

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

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It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

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