"The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations."

-- Iris Murdoch

#Essentials Quotes #Culture Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes

“Life is a challenge, and I'm staying in the game to win.”
“Going from playing a backroom of a bar to a show for 80,000 people...that's pretty wild.”
“The soul has many motions, body one.”
“Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.”
“I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see, whom at times I manage to visit, and whom at other times I forget; who remains calm and silent while I talk, and forgives, gently, when I hate, who walks where I am not, who will remain standing when I die.”
“For women to be supplying the soldiery with banners, flannel shirts and other material comforts was, superficially, all of a piece with their ministrations to their menfolk at home. Such contributions to the war effort were socially acceptable because they could be seen as an extension into the military sphere of the traditional female virtues of charity, nurture and needlework. Yet in reality what the women were doing represented the thin end of a far more radical wedge. Consciously or not, these female patriots were staking out a civic role for themselves. And many of them relished it.”
“Ultimately, all our complaints are directed against God.”
“I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in our own fictions or those devised for us by someone or something else.”

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