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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
Dame Iris Murdoch
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Nothing
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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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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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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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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
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Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
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Real worship involves waiting.
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They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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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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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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