Quotes
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Muriel Spark

"If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. No other practice so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one -surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs."

Source : "The prime of Miss Jean Brodie; The comforters; The only problem; The driver's seat; Memento mori".

Muriel Spark

#Practice Quotes #Eggs Quotes #Remembrance Quotes

“We need to have a paradigm shift in our consciousness. If we don't get our act together and come in commonality and understanding with the organisms that sustain us today, not only will we destroy those organisms, but we will destroy ourselves.”
“The only piece of advice I would give to the aspiring players is that no amount of practice is enough. You need to keep at it, no matter how successful you are.”
“(Farm workers) are involved in the planting and the cultivation and the harvesting of the greatest abundance of food known in this society. They bring in so much food to feed you and me and the whole country and enough food to export to other places. The ironic thing and the tragic thing is that after they make this tremendous contribution, they don't have any money or any food left for themselves.”
“What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.”
“One bit of advice someone gave me - which I haven't yet tried - is that if you go to an area where you might pick up a tummy bug, you should seek out the local probiotic yogurt. Eating it will introduce you to the local gut flora, apparently.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies." "We're all going to want cookies if the world comes to an end," Mrs. Nesbitt agreed. "And chips and pretzels. If the world is coming to an end, why should I care about my blood pressure?" "Okay, we'll die fat," Mom said.”
“I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say.”
“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.”

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