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Iris Murdoch
(1919-?) British novelist and philosopher.
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Women quotesI think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
Happiness quotesHappiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.
Churches quotesThe 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.
Lovers quotesEvery man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Survival quotesThe notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
Present quotesWe shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
Marriage quotesIn 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.
Sociology quotesHe was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
Fantasy quotesBut fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Worship quotesI daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
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