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Iris Murdoch

"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods."

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Amber Hurdle

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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Amber Hurdle

"History develops, art stands still."

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Amber Hurdle

"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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Amber Hurdle

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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Amber Hurdle

"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

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Amber Hurdle

"Music heals all forms of misery."

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Amber Hurdle

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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Amber Hurdle

"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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Amber Hurdle

"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

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Amber Hurdle

"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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Iris Murdoch
"But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art."

Art

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Iris Murdoch
"Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions."

Emotional

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Iris Murdoch
"Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream."

People

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Iris Murdoch
"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality."

Life

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Iris Murdoch
"The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe."

Comfort

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Iris Murdoch
"In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all."

Philosophy

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Iris Murdoch
"All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous."

Art

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Iris Murdoch
"He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out."

Life

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Iris Murdoch
"Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic."

Truth

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Iris Murdoch
"The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries."

Life

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