"Beware the ire of the calm."

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Source : Muriel Spark (2015). “The Abbess of Crewe”, p.22, Canongate Books

Muriel Spark

“God said: "Abraham, kill me a son. Abe said: "Man, you must be putting me on." God said: "No." Abe said: "What" God said: "You can do what you want Abe but the next time you see me coming you'd better run". Abe said: "Where you want this killing done?" God said: "Out on Highway 61.”
“The very best thing you can give someone is what they want.”

Source : Marshall Sylver (1997). “Passion Profit Power”, p.114, Simon and Schuster
“Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.”
“It's hard to keep on being civil when they ask you such annoying questions.”
“People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don't vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.”
“My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.”
“So when I'm working out I do things extreme.”
“Whatever the mind does, the soul has perforce to suffer the consequences of it, because the soul and the mind are knotted together.”

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