Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
IRIS MURDOCHEvery book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.
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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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White magic is black magic. A less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people, and demons used for good can hang around and make mischief afterwards.
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I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
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Anything that consoles is fake.
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I feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise?
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Every persisting marriage is based on fear’, said Peregrine. ‘Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what’s at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.
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The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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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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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.
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