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Famous Iris Murdoch Quotes
“The room, the wall, trembled with precision, as if the inanimate world were about to utter a word.”
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“I'm terribly in love with you. But please don't worry about it.”
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“I'm totally unworthy of this love which you are offering to me.”
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“But I have, I suppose, become through the power of love, awful, relentless.”
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“Is that a quotation?" "Only from me.”
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“Most friendships are a sort of frozen and undeveloping semi-hostility.”
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“You mustn't mind so much. It's all in your head." "Well, I live in my head.”
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“I know people can be awful dooms for each other.”
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“Coming events do cast shadows.”
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“However one must ask not just, is it amusing, is it exciting, but is it a work of art?”
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“I'm not like other people, my life just doesn't work, it never has.”
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“Life is horrible, horrible, horrible, said the philosopher.”
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“The young are self-satisfied really and utterly ruthless.”
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“The book is quite serious and quite funny. (Most novels are.)”
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“But what words exactly did he use? People who aren't writers never describe things exactly.”
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“I'm not interested. I never liked him. He's some sort scoundrel.”
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“You get so worked up and flowery! You sound as if you were quoting something all the time!”
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“Give yourself to these great works of art. They suffice for a lifetime.”
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“A marriage is a very secret place.”
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“Tuesday? My whole concept of the future had crumpled.”
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“I know time doesn't heal. That's the silliest idea of all.”
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“That art gives charm to terrible things is perhaps its glory, perhaps its curse. Art is a doom.”
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“Only stories and magic really endure.”
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“Then the front doorbell (already too long delayed by my rambling narrative) rang.”
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“Only art explains, and that cannot itself be explained.”
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