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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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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
Moore
Mary
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Tyler

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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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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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A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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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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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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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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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.
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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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