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Iris Murdoch

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.


— Iris Murdoch


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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.


— Iris Murdoch


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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.


— Iris Murdoch


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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.


— Iris Murdoch


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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.


— Iris Murdoch


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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 same.


— Iris Murdoch


#everyone #i #i think #important #irish

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.


— Iris Murdoch


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


— Iris Murdoch


#chiefly #falling #forgetting #how #love

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.


— Iris Murdoch


#doomed #future #how #prepared #present

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.


— Iris Murdoch


#eyes #falling #love #love is #new






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In a BBC Radio 4 discussion of Murdoch and her work in 2009 Wilson assented to Bidisha's view that Murdoch's philosophical output consisted of nothing but "GCSE-style" essays on Plato and even suggested that Murdoch's later philosophical work "Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals" was a mistake that precipitated Murdoch into Alzheimers. Wilson's record that Murdoch regretted the sympathetic portrayal of the Irish nationalist cause Iris Murdoch had given earlier in The Red and the Green and a competing defence of the book at Caen in 1978. N.

Her first publiIris Murdochd novel Under the Net was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1987 Iris Murdoch was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

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