61 Quotes by Iris Murdoch about Dialogue
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I don't think she's had much of a life.""Well, a life is a life.""What does that mean?""One never knows. I daresay most lives are rotten. It's only when one's young one expects otherwise.
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What larks we had," said James. "When?""When we were young."I could not recall any larks I had had with James. I poured out the wine and we sat in silence.
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The trouble with you, Charles, is that basically you despise women, whereas I, in spite of some appearances to the contrary, do not.""I don't despise women. I was in love with all Shakespeare's heroines before I was twelve.""But they don't exist, dear man, that's the point. They live in the never-never land of art, all tricked out in Shakespeare's wit and wisdom, and mock us from there, filling us with false hopes and empty dreams. The real thing is spite and lies and arguments about money.
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But he's joking, he doesn't mean it.""When Lucas makes a joke he means it.
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Is it true that the first time of falling in love is the worst?""No.
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Don't be hurt by me.""I can't help being hurt —
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You have sometimes thought of going back?""Yes, I have, but only in a fantasy way.
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I suddenly feel . . . as if he might never come. There are 'nevers' in people's lives. People go away, people die, it does happen —
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You've obviously never been in love.""I have actually. And awfully. And—always—without hope—I've never had my love reciprocated ever.
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