Reading Spark

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“A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

“Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!”
—Muriel Spark (b. 1918)