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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.

Iris Murdoch

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Philosopher
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Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
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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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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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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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Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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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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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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youth is a marvelous garment
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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
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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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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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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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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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