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There cannot be many people who can go through life without regretting sooner or later a lack of knowledge about horses.
— Muriel Wace
Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.
— Muriel Barbery
Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
— Muriel Spark
It's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country.
— Muriel Lester
I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world. - Paloma
— Muriel Barbery
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open. — Muriel Rukeyser
The world would split open. — Muriel Rukeyser
Poet' had always sounded like a profession to me, or a talent. But the dead American [Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry] made it sound like a faith.
— Ariel Gore
If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.
— Muriel Barbery
Never apologise, never explain.
— Muriel Spark
In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
— Muriel Barbery
It is always reassuring to be disabused of one's own paranoia.
— Muriel Barbery
When I am dead, even then,
I will still love you, I will wait in these poems,
When I am dead, even then
I am still listening to you. — Muriel Rukeyser
I will still love you, I will wait in these poems,
When I am dead, even then
I am still listening to you. — Muriel Rukeyser
I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot
— Muriel Rukeyser
You create opportunities by performing, not complaining
— Muriel Siebert
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
— Muriel Barbery
I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, and the pride.
— Muriel Rukeyser
That is the way a summer rain can take hold in you- like a new heart, beating in time with another's.
— Muriel Barbery
You don't know what it's like trying to eat enough to live on and at the same time avoid fats and carbohydrates.
— Muriel Spark
The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.
— Muriel Rukeyser
Exchange is creation.
— Muriel Rukeyser
Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.
— Muriel Spark
Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great
— Muriel Spark
How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!
— Muriel Lester
The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
— Muriel Rukeyser
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
— Muriel Spark
Ici le fashion police. How can I enhance your fabulousness
— Muriel Zagha
The first casualty in every war is truth.
— Muriel Lester
Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.
— Muriel Rukeyser
Remember you must die.
— Muriel Spark
The only reason for this treatment was that they were Jews.
— Muriel Knox Doherty
Papa is just a kid who's playing the dead serious grown-up.
— Muriel Barbery
And I wonder how well I myself can see.
— Muriel Barbery
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
— Muriel Rukeyser
Because art is life, playing to other rhythms.
— Muriel Barbery
What is the purpose of intelligence if it is not to serve others?
— Muriel Barbery
If you can pretend to ignore the fact that you've got a right hand, what else can you pretend to ignore? Can you have a negative heart, a hollow soul?
— Muriel Barbery
Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
— Muriel Barbery
I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
— Muriel Barbery
Beware the ire of the calm.
— Muriel Spark
I had a brief glimpse of a frail, mature man carrying a ravaged child in his arms...
— Muriel Barbery
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
— Muriel Rukeyser
since destiny always rings three times...
— Muriel Barbery
Women in drudgery knew
They must be one of four:
Whores, artists, saints, and wives.
There are composite lives
that women always live — Muriel Rukeyser
They must be one of four:
Whores, artists, saints, and wives.
There are composite lives
that women always live — Muriel Rukeyser
She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones.
— Muriel Spark
Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
— Muriel Barbery
When we disappear, it is the others who die for us
— Muriel Barbery
I will try to be non-violent
one more day
this morning, waking the world away
in the violent day. — Muriel Rukeyser
one more day
this morning, waking the world away
in the violent day. — Muriel Rukeyser
The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.
— Muriel Spark
I understood that I was suffering because I couldn't make anyone else around me feel better.
— Muriel Barbery
A victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.
— Muriel Lester
Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
— Muriel Spark
Birch trees
Teach me that I am nothing
And that I am deserving of life — Muriel Barbery
Teach me that I am nothing
And that I am deserving of life — Muriel Barbery
Life always rewards hard work.
— Muriel Gill
Only one man lived who could understand Gibbs's papers. That was Maxwell, and now he is dead.
— Muriel Rukeyser
I don't give a damn about where I happen to be, provided nothing stops me from going into my mind.
— Muriel Barbery
I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there.
— Muriel Barbery
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
— Muriel Spark
At that time many of the men looked like Rupert Brooke, whose portrait still hung in everyone's imagination.
— Muriel Spark
One writes in order to feel ...
— Muriel Rukeyser
Their faces said : This is your home; and I .
I never come home, I never go away.
And they all answered : Stay. — Muriel Rukeyser
I never come home, I never go away.
And they all answered : Stay. — Muriel Rukeyser
Sandwiches,' she said, 'like diamonds, are forever.
— Muriel Spark
Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document.
— Muriel Rukeyser
So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.
— Muriel Spark
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
— Muriel Spark
How do you know when you're in love?' she said.
'The traffic improves and the cost of living seems very low. — Muriel Spark
'The traffic improves and the cost of living seems very low. — Muriel Spark
If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.
— Muriel Spark
Art is emotion without desire.
— Muriel Barbery
I also love Australian movies. I love Muriel's Wedding - I've seen in six times. Baz Luhrmann's best movie is strictly ballroom ... without question.
— Ridley Scott
In any event, it's done, said Papa-which are the words of a coward to the power of ten.
— Muriel Barbery
When you don't know how to build the present, you tell
— Muriel Barbery
Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern
thinker. — Muriel Barbery
thinker. — Muriel Barbery
We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
— Muriel Barbery
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and dying as on a battlefield.
— Muriel Spark
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
— Muriel Rukeyser
The universe is not made of atoms; it's made of stories.
— Muriel Rukeyser
Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.
— Muriel Barbery
When you tell your dreams you gotta tell people you trust, 'cause sometimes they'll snatch your dream right away from you.
— Michelle Muriel
Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
— Muriel Rukeyser