What did Iris Murdoch mean by: Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea. - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
+ Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child’s despair. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Adults, Children, Despair, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Good Life, Requirements, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Destiny, Justified, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) […] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Art, Concealment, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Demon, Wonder, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Lying, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Real misery cuts off all paths to itself. Feraz Zeid, August 28, 2023December 24, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Suffering, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Most real relationships are involuntary. Feraz Zeid, September 4, 2023December 26, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Involuntary, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids. - Jean Craighead George
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
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