Muriel Spark Quotes

With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

We all look. The lucky find.

To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery.

Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it.

You dig in and you find something.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

Sometimes you find something new, and you just say, 'Wow.'

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.

and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree

When you don't know what you're searching for, you have to look absolutely everywhere.

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled.

Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for Asia and stumble on America — and the hope of scarecrows and tin men: that you find out you had the thing you sought all along.

Find what you want. I will find you.

You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure.

For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.

Only those who seek shall find.