I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
~ Iris Murdoch
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
~ Iris Murdoch
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It’s funny that I’ve gone from hating pop psychology to being way too Freudian. I can see all my fears and desires in it. Ones I could never give in to because I was deep in the church and I was a super-suppressed gay dude.
~ Marlon James
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Mostly when people think of sophisticated Africa, they think of Egypt. And even that they attribute to aliens.
~ Marlon James
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