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Good Quotes by Iris Murdoch
- Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
- Love is the source of our greatest errors; but when it is even partially refined it is the energy and the passion of the soul…
- It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
- All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
- The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
- Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
- The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall…
- we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk…
- Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we hold…
- Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
- Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should…
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