"I am not famous for anything in particular. I am just famous."

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Iris Murdoch

#Particular Quotes

“but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.”
“How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.”
“I haven't written poetry in a long time but I read it and I miss it. It is so hard to write. So hard to finish, so hard to find the exact word to make it shine. In honor of my youth I will write a poem to finish this essay. It is spring in the Ozark Mountains. The yellow flowers are blooming and the birds wake me at dawn and last night five planets lined up by the moon in the western sky. If that doesn't inspire me to poetry what will?”
“To win you've got to stay in the game.”

Source : Claude M. Bristol, Harold Sherman (1992). “TNT: The Power Within You”, p.155, Simon and Schuster
“I had to come to the United States to prove myself. I fought for a long time in England and a lot of people thought I was a protected fighter.”
“To prefer paper to gold is to prefer high risk to lower risk, instability to stability, inflation to steady long term values, a system of very low grade performance to a system of higher, though not perfect performance.”
“Over the years, my books have been given a lot more credence than they should. I don't think people should take them quite that seriously. They're not a theological treatise; they were never intended to be. I find myself in awkward situations sometimes because people think I'm some great authority on spiritual warfare, but I'm not. I never have been.”
“If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.”

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