Skip to content

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.

— Muriel Spark

Another quote →

More quotes by Muriel Spark

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.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

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

All Muriel Spark quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Muriel Spark (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.