A good comb
Subtitle: the sayings of Muriel Spark
By: edited by Penelope Jardine
Contributors: Jardine, Penelope, editor
Publisher: New Directions Books
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780811227605
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Quotations
Other titles: Sayings of Muriel Spark
Description: A Good Comb, a small selection of brilliant advice, asides, sayings, and aphorisms, celebrates the immortal Muriel Spark's hundredth birthday. Enjoy her lively, pointed, puckish insights: "Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities." "It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles." "The sacrifice of pleasure is of course itself a pleasure." "It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist." "She wasn't a person to whom things happen." "You look for one thing and you find another." "It calms you down, a good comb.""--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: "New Directions paperbook original."
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A few words of advice; title: Writing; title: Sex & love; title: Wisdom; title: Religion; title: Art; title: The observing eye; title: Power; title: Truth; title: A few last words of advice.