Frivolous Quote by Iris Murdoch

“No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.”

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

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

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“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.”

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.

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emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the…

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I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon…

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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and…

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Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception…

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being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.

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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

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“Oh if only I could take my mother away and never know of these things again. But it was impossible, the machine would go…

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Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes…

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I didn't grow up reading magazines; I was very much in an environment where that would have been deemed trivial, frivolous.

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The frivolous work of polished idleness.

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Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly…

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“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen…

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I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that.

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I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.

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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

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