Iris Murdoch Quotes
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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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Author Details:
Type:
Author Quotes
Category:
Irish Author Quotes
Date of Birth:
July 15, 1919
Date of Death:
February 8, 1999
Nationality:
Irish
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Select Iris Murdoch Quotations:
We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch
Anything that consoles is fake.
Iris Murdoch
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
Iris Murdoch
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris Murdoch
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Iris Murdoch
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
Iris Murdoch
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Early,
Get,
Got,
Had,
Intellectual,
Into,
Life,
Managed,
Muddle,
Never,
Out,
Sociologist
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All Iris Murdoch Quotations:
A bad review is even less...
All art is a struggle to...
Anything that consoles is fake.
Art is the final cunning of...
Being good is just a matter...
Between saying and doing, many a...
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is...
Every man needs two women: a...
Falling out of love is chiefly...
Falling out of love is very...
Happiness is a matter of one's...
He was a sociologist; he had...
Human affairs are not serious, but...
I daresay anything can be made...
I see myself as Rhoda, not...
I think being a woman is...
In almost every marriage there is...
In philosophy if you aren't moving...
Literature could be said to be...
Love is the difficult realization that...
Moralistic is not moral. And as...
No love is entirely without worth...
One doesn't have to get anywhere...
Only lies and evil come from...
People from a planet without flowers...
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better...
Perhaps when distant people on other...
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men...
The absolute yearning of one human...
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
The notion that one will not...
The priesthood is a marriage. People...
There is no substitute for the...
We can only learn to love...
We live in a fantasy world...
We shall be better prepared for...
Writing is like getting married. One...
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