Iris Murdoch Quotes - Page 8

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• Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.

  Iris Murdoch

  Mean, Self, Feet

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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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  Past, Hegel, Truth Is

  Iris Murdoch (1977). “Under the Net”, p.20, Penguin

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• How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.

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  Happiness, Insult, Innocent

  Iris Murdoch (2008). “A Word Child”, p.7, Random House

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• The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

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  Survival, Comfort, Literature

  "The Message to the Planet". Book by Iris Murdoch, p. 532, 1989.

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• Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

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  Men, Play, Roles

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.42, Penguin

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• One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

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  A Severed Head ch. 3 (1961)

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• Every artist is an unhappy lover.

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  Philosophical, Artist, Unhappy

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.23, Penguin

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• They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.

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  Church, Mankind, Meetings

  Iris Murdoch (1988). “The book and the brotherhood”, Viking, 1988

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• Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.

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  Sleep, Despair, Slumber

  Iris Murdoch (1977). “Under the Net”, p.166, Penguin

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• To be a complete victim may be another source of power.

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  Power, May, Victim

  Iris Murdoch (1987). “The Unicorn”, p.77, Penguin

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• Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.

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  Lying, Food, Profound

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.30, Penguin

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• Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.

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  Hate, Darkness, Caves

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.50, Penguin

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• That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

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  Wish, Awful, Breathe

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.151, Penguin

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• I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

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  Half, Figures, Backgrounds

  Iris Murdoch (1976). “A Severed Head”, p.38, Penguin

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• I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

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  Literature, Mary

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