What did Iris Murdoch mean by: Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don’t expect. Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Intuition, Philosophy, Understanding, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Communication, Importance, Language, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Real misery cuts off all paths to itself. Author, August 28, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Despair, Inescapable, Isolation, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Comfort, Relationship, Value, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation. Author, June 10, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Civilization, Conflict, Truth, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Deprivation, Happiness, Innocence, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
There is no triumph of good, and if there were it would not be a triumph of good. Author, December 23, 2023December 29, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Goodness, Paradox, Triumph, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child’s despair. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Childhood, Despair, Misery, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
I started in music and that’s my forte and that’s what I’ve always done and where I’m heading. Jencarlos Canela
A family, like a canoe, must be steered or paddled, or it won’t take you where you want to go. William J Doherty
