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Iris Murdoch, 1957 (Lord Snowdon) Happy birthday, Iris Murdoch (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) “ “I think it is important to make a detailed plan before you write the first…

Iris Murdoch

Ever Affectionately Yours: Letters—and Doodles—from Iris Murdoch

The unicorn; a novel by Iris Murdoch, unknown edition,

Iris Murdoch | Footnotes to Plato | Murdoch’s view that morality is real and that, with the right conceptual resources, we can perceive it

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Iris Murdoch by Cecil Beaton

Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.

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It started about ten years ago when I was walking around in the west village with my girlfriend Jolie. In the Housing Works on West 10th I saw a copy of The Good Apprentice. I'd never heard of Iris Murdoch before but I liked the description on the back. I started reading it that night, and was hooked. It's about search for meaning, has a big cast, it's mysterious, and has a hint of weird magic. As I read more of her books, I'd see that that could describe almost all of them. So, what happens…

One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own. | Iris Murdoch Quote

With nearly one million Britons in the grip of dementia, it’s hardly surprising that writers and artists should increasingly tackle the subject. But can the arts ever illuminate a condition that by its very nature resists all understanding?

Iris Murdoch quote on education.

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is. | Iris Murdoch Quote

Iris Murdoch

In this post, we look at five bits of writing advice from Iris Murdoch, the award-winning Irish author.

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing? | Iris Murdoch Quote

Iris Murdoch, by Madame Yevonde, 1967.