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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Anything that consoles is fake.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.... (more Iris Murdoch quotes)
| Iris Murdoch: A Life by Peter J. Conradi | |
| Iris Murdoch as I Knew Her by A N Wilson | |
| From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations With Iris Murdoch by Iris Murdoch and Gillian Dooley |