704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

Living with someone who hates you is—it drives you mad—

Arnold's 'joke' was too obscenely good not to be taken as a portent: it was the visible part of some huge invisible horror.

Tuesday? My whole concept of the future had crumpled.

Those who cry out the truth to an indifferent world too often weary, fall silent or come to doubt their own wit.

Then the front doorbell (already too long delayed by my rambling narrative) rang.

Some people are just 'diminishers' and 'spoilers' for others. I suppose almost everybody diminishes someone. A saint would be nobody's spoiler.

I did love her in a way, but it was under the sign of doom.

Only stories and magic really endure.

Of course we have an 'unconscious mind' and this is partly what my book is about. But there is no general chart of that lost continent. Certainly not a 'scientific' one.