Quotes by Iris Murdoch
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins
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Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
