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
+ Marriage isn’t a tram. It doesn’t have to get anywhere. Feraz Zeid, October 14, 2023December 26, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Marriage, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ evil soon makes tools out of those who don’t hate it. Feraz Zeid, July 2, 2023December 12, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Evil, Hate, Tools, 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
+ Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don’t expect. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Novelty, Writing, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ being homosexual doesn’t determine a man’s whole character any more than being heterosexual does. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Character, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues. Feraz Zeid, June 2, 2023December 12, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Love, Secret, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness! Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Sad, Unhappiness, 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
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
