Youth is a marvelous garment.
IRIS MURDOCHOf course this chattering diary is a facade, the literary equivalent of the everyday smiling face which hides the inward ravages of jealousy, remorse, fear and the consciousness of irretrievable moral failure. Yet such pretenses are not only consolations but may even be productive of a little ersatz courage.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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I’ve been so unhappy for years, so unhappy, I don’t understand how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive.
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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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People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don’t admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It’s the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.
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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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Love doesn’t think like that. All right, it’s blind as a bat- Bats have radar. Yours doesnt seem to be working.
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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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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
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I think being a woman is like being Irish, Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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