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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
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there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.
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