Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
IRIS MURDOCH
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.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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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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Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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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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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
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We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
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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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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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Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Anything that consoles is fake.
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The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.
IRIS MURDOCH