Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until
one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris Murdoch
one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris Murdoch
Related:
- Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of
consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris... - A more intimate theology, and one more consonant with the nature of.
love, pictures a demonic force engaged in continuous... - Love... is the extremely difficult realization that something other than
oneself is real.
Iris... - Coming events do cast shadows. Writers know that their books are often
prophetic.
One gratuitously imagines what is really going to happen... - Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance.
If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese... - If one wants to rid oneself of an unbearable oppression,
one needs hashish." --... - No one panic until it's
necessary... - It is better never to have been born. But who among us has such luck?
One in a million, perhaps...
From the same category:
- Life is what happens while you are making other plans.
John Lennon, singer and... - To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid,
you must also be well-mannered.... - Marriage is a great institution,
but I'm not ready for an institution. Mae... - Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes,
only with more finesse! Derwood... - I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Groucho...
