Irish - Author | July 15, 1919 - February 8, 1999
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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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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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
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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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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
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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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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
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