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Real worship involves waiting.

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
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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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... 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 most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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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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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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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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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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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
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Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
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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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youth is a marvelous garment
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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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All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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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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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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for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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