"There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce ..."

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Muriel Spark

#Divorce Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Upset Quotes

“I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.”
“It seemed to me that the people who made the rules of the road had figured out everything that would help a person drive safely right down to having a sign that tells you you're passing through a place where deer cross. Somebody should stick up some signs on the highway of life. CAUTION: JERKS CROSSING. Blinking yellow lights when you're about to to something stupid. Stop signs in front of people who could hurt you. Green lights shining when you're doing the right thing. It would make the whole experience easier.”
“Cuba is not like bourgeois democracy the ones that imposes the blockade to make Cuba change. We have direct elections. Here they put people on a list and then tell the people supposedly what they have done so they can be elected. That is the difference and why we say our democracy is truly participatory and popular.”

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“My primary object is to defend and advance a principle in which I see the only possible relief from much that enthralls and degrades and distorts, turning light to darkness and good to evil, rather than to gage a philosopher or weigh a philosophy. Yet the examination I propose must lead to a decisive judgment upon both.”
“Christianity had never been more itself, more consistent with Jesus and more evidently en route to its own future, than in the launching of the world mission.”
“I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' Itâ€™s just a painting.”
“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.”
“As long as we are successful on the pitch, then I will be here-unless Manchester United put in a call. But I don't think Sir Alex Ferguson is planning to step down just yet!”

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