What did Iris Murdoch mean by: A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Humor, Perspective, Responsibility, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind. Author, December 23, 2023December 29, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Globalism, Sacredness, Unity, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Communication, Sound, Time, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Humility, Integrity, Self-improvement, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ We can only learn to love by loving. Author, July 6, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Learning, Love, Relationships, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. Author, December 23, 2023December 29, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Art, Struggle, Virtue, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Food, Reading, Thinking, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Charm, Forgetting, Love, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Read explanation Charlie Munger Business person
The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan’s deflation is another’s inflation. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
