Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
IRIS MURDOCHViolence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
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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This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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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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I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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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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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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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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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Only take someone’s hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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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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Anything that consoles is fake.
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