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Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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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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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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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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Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
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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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The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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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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Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.
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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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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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