Quotes by Iris Murdoch

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and...

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Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's...

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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

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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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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is...

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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice,...

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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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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life...

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