"You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation."

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Iris Murdoch

#Truth Quotes #Civilisation Quotes

“There's this other girl called Lykke Li from Sweden - I really want to collaborate with her, that'd be great. Obviously Kanye West as well, and Drake would be pretty amazing.”
“When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.”
“For, when the credit of a country is in any degree questionable, it never fails to give on extravagant premium, in one shape or another, upon all the loans it has occasion to make. Nor does the evil end here; the same disadvantage must be sustained upon whatever is to be bought on terms of future payment. From this constant necessity of borrowing and buying dear, it is easy to conceive how immensely the expenses of a nation, in a course of time, will be augmented by an unsound state of the public credit.”
“The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.”
“I do not wish to help Jeremy Clarkson be amusing in the event of my death.”

Source : "Top Gear" with Richard Hammond, July 27, 2008.
“When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.”
“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”

Source : Attributed in "Words of Wisdom" edited by William Safire and ‎Leonard Safir, (p. 58), 1990.
“You canâ€™t has,' he whispered softly, 'not yours.”

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