"you're quite wrong there, Collie. One does miss sex. The body has a life of it's own. We do miss what we haven't had, you and I. Biologically. Ask Sigmund Freud. It is revealed in dreams. The absent t..."
- Muriel Spark
"Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid."
"It was a gusty day, and from the windows of Caroline's top-floor flat, only the sky was visible with its little hurrying clouds. It was a day when being indoors was meaningful, wasting an afternoon in..."
"it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls."
"The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)"
"Sandwiches,' she said, 'like diamonds, are forever."
"It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden."
"People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and write, they can afford any of the instruments of book writing such as pens, paper, comp..."
"Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life."
"Do you know, Sandy dear, all my ambitions are for you and Rose. You have got insight, perhaps not quite spiritual, but you're a deep one, and Rose has got instinct.' 'Perhaps not quite spiritual' said..."