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Iris Murdoch has 126 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
• The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or…
• Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
• Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
• It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one…
• Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
• Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
• All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

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