Quotes about Iris Murdoch

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than...

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Anything that consoles is fake.

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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go...

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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a...

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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

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