How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
IRIS MURDOCH
People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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I don’t think I can marry, I’m not fit for it, I’m not real enough. That’s the trouble. I’m a puppet that’s realised what’s wrong with itself and it’s horrible. I’m propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I’m propped up crying in a corner.
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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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Of 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.
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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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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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An experience is richest not talked of.
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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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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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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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Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.
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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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That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me
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