Iris Murdoch Quotes (36 quotes)

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„He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.“
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„Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.“
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„One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.“
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„Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.“
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„I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.“
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„I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.“
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„Only lies and evil come from letting people off.“
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„A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.“
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„The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.“
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„Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.“
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„There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.“
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„Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.“
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„The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.“
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„In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.“
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„All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.“
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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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„Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.“
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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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„People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.“
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„Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.“
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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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