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The Black Prince (1973)
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.
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All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
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Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
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Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human communications.
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Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
Iris Murdoch
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Born:
July 15, 1919
Died:
February 8, 1999
(aged 79)
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