Iris Murdoch Quotes (14 quotes)

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„I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.“
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„The cry of equality pulls everyone down.“
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„I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.“
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„One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.“
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„I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.“
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„Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.“
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„In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.“
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„No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.“
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„Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.“
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„Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.“
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„Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.“
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„We can only learn to love by loving.“
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„Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!“
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„The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.“
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Iris Murdoch
Author born: July 15, 1919
Author died: February 08, 1999
Nationality: Irish
Author Profession: Author

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