Muriel Spark
Title: Dame Muriel Spark
Birthdate: February 1, 1918
Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Date of Death: April 13, 2006
Occupation: Author
Profile: Best known for
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Awarded the title Dame of the British Empire in 1993.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Spark
Number of Quotes: 2
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going
or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.