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The most interesting things are always happening behind one.

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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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A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
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Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
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To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
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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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It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
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Real worship involves waiting.
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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
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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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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
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evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
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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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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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The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
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