{"author":"Iris Murdoch","author_id":"Iris+Murdoch","total_quotes":79,"quotes":[{"text":"Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.","author":"Iris Murdoch","tags":["affairs","dalliances","dreams","foibles","love","lovers","memory","regrets","romances"],"id":2000,"author_id":"Iris+Murdoch"},{"text":"The past and the present are after all so close, so almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of a material which longs to join, to interpenetrate, and to become heavy and very small like some of those heavenly bodies scientists tell us of.","author":"Iris Murdoch","tags":["divisions","history","introspection","memory","past","present","reflection","time"],"id":23679,"author_id":"Iris+Murdoch"},{"text":"It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute in a decent straightforward way.","author":"Iris Murdoch","tags":["men","violence"],"id":37944,"author_id":"Iris+Murdoch"},{"text":"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.","author":"Iris Murdoch","tags":["giving","selfish","partner "],"id":38982,"author_id":"Iris+Murdoch"},{"text":"To anyone who will take the trouble to become attached to her she will immediately give a devoted, generous, imaginative and completely uncapricious attention, which is still a calculated avoidance of self-surrender. This is no doubt another reason why she never went into films; her private life must be an almost full-time activity. This has the sad result too that her existence is one long act of disloyalty; and when I knew her she was constantly involved in secrecy and lying in order to conceal from each of her friends the fact that she was so closely bound to all the others.","author":"Iris Murdoch","tags":["friendship","very-me"],"id":40681,"author_id":"Iris+Murdoch"},{"text":"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.","author":"Iris Murdoch","tags":["love","love is","matter "],"id":42606,"author_id":"Iris+Murdoch"},{"text":"But death is not easy, and life can win by simulating it.","author":"Iris Murdoch","tags":["death","life","life-and-death"],"id":47528,"author_id":"Iris+Murdoch"},{"text":"Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.","author":"Iris Murdoch","tags":["art"],"id":48049,"author_id":"Iris+Murdoch"},{"text":"The cry of equality pulls everyone down.","author":"Iris Murdoch","tags":["down","everyone","cry "],"id":59461,"author_id":"Iris+Murdoch"},{"text":"The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.","author":"Iris Murdoch","tags":["love","change","people "],"id":63791,"author_id":"Iris+Murdoch"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":79,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}