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, computers, tape recorders, and generally by the time they have reached this decision, they have had a simple education. Muriel Spark
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  1. For those who like that sort of thing, " said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.
  2. If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches,...
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  4. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
  5. The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
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