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Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
Iris Murdoch
The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
Iris Murdoch
I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
Iris Murdoch
Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
Iris Murdoch
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
Iris Murdoch
A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
Iris Murdoch
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
Iris Murdoch
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.
Iris Murdoch
... 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.
Iris Murdoch
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
Iris Murdoch
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.
Iris Murdoch
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
Iris Murdoch
The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
Iris Murdoch
The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
Iris Murdoch
We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
Iris Murdoch
It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
Iris Murdoch
