A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel Spark

Celebrate the immortal Muriel Spark's hundredth birthday by imbibing a delicious glass of her bubbly wit

A Good Comb, a small gift edition of Muriel Spark's brilliant asides, sayings, and aphorisms, is a book for sheer enjoyment. No writer offers such 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 i...