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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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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Jean Iris Murdoch
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover.
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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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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
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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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So we live a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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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.
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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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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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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
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We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.
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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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On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
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we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.
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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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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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