A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Iris Murdoch
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Iris Murdoch
Anything that consoles is fake.
Iris Murdoch
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
Iris Murdoch
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Iris Murdoch
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Iris Murdoch
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Iris Murdoch
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Iris Murdoch
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
Iris Murdoch
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
Iris Murdoch
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Iris Murdoch
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
Iris Murdoch
I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
Iris Murdoch
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
Iris Murdoch
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
Iris Murdoch
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Iris Murdoch
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
Iris Murdoch
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch
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Biography
Type: Author
Nationality: Irish
Born: July 15, 1919
Died: February 8, 1999
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