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• Because, my dear Julian, pure ignorant young girls cannot save complicated neurotic over-educated older men from disaster, however much they kid themselves that they can.
  -- Iris Murdoch...
• An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have
  the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie...
• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
  -- Iris Murdoch...
• All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
  -- Iris Murdoch...
• Love... is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
  -- Iris Murdoch...
• A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. -- Iris Murdoch
• A more intimate theology, and one more consonant with the nature of.
  ..love, pictures a demonic force engaged in continuous creation and participation. -- Iris Murdoch...
• The venom clamors of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
  -- William Shakespeare...
• It has long been an article of our folklore that too much knowledge or skill, or especially consummate expertise, is a bad thing.
  It dehumanizes those who achieve it, and makes difficult their commerce with just plain folks, in whom good old common sense has not been obliterated by mere book learning or fancy notions....