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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

Iris Murdoch

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Jean Iris Murdoch
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I have used the word attention, which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.
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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.
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Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
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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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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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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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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.
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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.
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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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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
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The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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