Dame Jean Iris Murdoch ( MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was...
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.