What did Iris Murdoch mean by: One doesn’t have to get anywhere in a marriage. It’s not a public conveyance. - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
+ It’s easier to sell junk when you’re known than works of genius when you’re unknown. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Easier, Genius, Junk, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Emotion, Literature, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Second Best, Sleep, Sound, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Solitude, Together, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. Feraz Zeid, October 13, 2023December 26, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Goodness, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Criticism, Important, Rain, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation. Feraz Zeid, June 10, 2023December 12, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Civilisation, Truth, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Confused, Moral, Passion, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
