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I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.

I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
– Iris Murdoch

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  3. Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling. – Iris Murdoch
  4. Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them. – Iris Murdoch
  5. there was a feeling as if I carried a small leaden coffin in the place of my heart – Iris Murdoch
  6. People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. – Iris Murdoch
  7. I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move. – Iris Murdoch
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  10. He felt, in a way so familiar as to be almost dreary, the chosen victim of the gods, the self-admitted traitor, the one destined for judgment. – Iris Murdoch
  11. I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture. – Iris Murdoch
  12. One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness. – Iris Murdoch
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  14. It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before. – Iris Murdoch
  15. Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself. – Iris Murdoch
  16. Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port. – Iris Murdoch
  17. But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You’re like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer. – Iris Murdoch
  18. Love doesn’t think like that. All right, it’s blind as a bat–”Bats have radar. Yours doesn’t seem to be working. – Iris Murdoch
  19. The Church says: the body is a sin.Science says: the body is a machine.Advertising says: The body is a business.The Body says: I am a fiesta. – Eduardo Galeano
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  22. Be nice to the environment. Be nice to animals. Be nice to people. If you do that, you will leave a mark on the world. – Enock Maregesi
  23. Nice words and nice appearance doesn’t conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear. – Michael Bassey Johnson
  24. Take the world nice and easy, and the world will take you the same. – Irish proverb
  25. Take a second look at what you are about to do… A second look prevents a second chance. – Israelmore Ayivor
  26. Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things. – Jim George
  27. A pessimist says the glass is half empty, an optimist says the glass is half full, and an engineer says the glass is too big. – Scott Edward Shjefte
  28. What’s true about you is what God says about you. Not what your mirror says. Not what your past says. – Mark Hall
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  32. Second chances are not that important. What’s important, is being ready when the first chance is given. – Jay Long
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