Iris Murdoch Quotes

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"Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions." — Iris Murdoch
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Emotions    Irish Author   

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"Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream." — Iris Murdoch
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Irish Author    People   

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"The cry of equality pulls everyone down." — Iris Murdoch
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Equality    Irish Author   

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"Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference." — Iris Murdoch
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Indifference    Irish Author   

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"No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base." — Iris Murdoch
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Irish Author    Love   

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"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out." — Iris Murdoch
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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." — Iris Murdoch
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"Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph." — Iris Murdoch
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"There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship." — Iris Murdoch
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Comfort    Irish Author   

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"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self." — Iris Murdoch
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"We can only learn to love by loving." — Iris Murdoch
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"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck." — Iris Murdoch
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Irish Author    Luck   

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"The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession." — Iris Murdoch
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Advice    Pride   

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"Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic." — Iris Murdoch
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"Only lies and evil come from letting people off." — Iris Murdoch
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Evil    Irish Author   

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"Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end." — Iris Murdoch
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Irish Author    Temperament   

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"One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats" — Iris Murdoch
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"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods." — Iris Murdoch
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"He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out." — Iris Murdoch
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Irish Author    Life   

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"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is." — Iris Murdoch
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"Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes." — Iris Murdoch
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