Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Category Archives: 1947 – Quote, Unquote
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
~ Iris Murdoch
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone’s life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick or a self-destroying or even murderous obsession.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
~ Iris Murdoch
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I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren’t open that early.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
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The novel, the novel proper that is, is about people’s treatment of each other, and so it is about human values.
~ Iris Murdoch
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The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
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All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
~ Iris Murdoch
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