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• Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
  Iris Murdoch...
• Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
  -- Iris Murdoch...
• A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. -- Iris Murdoch
• A more intimate theology, and one more consonant with the nature of.
  ..love, pictures a demonic force engaged in continuous creation and participation. -- Iris Murdoch...
• To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
  -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) -- Vogue (November 1, 1956)...
• We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
  -- Iris Murdoch...
• All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
  -- Iris Murdoch...
• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
  -- Iris Murdoch...