"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -"

Budgell, Eustace on friends and friendship
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"There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship."

Murdoch, Iris on relationship
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"He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out."

Murdoch, Iris on sociology   

"Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved."

Murdoch, Iris on bereavement
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"Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference."

Murdoch, Iris on causes
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"The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe."

Murdoch, Iris on survival   

"Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge."

Murdoch, Iris on vanity
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"All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous."

Murdoch, Iris on virtue   

"The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all."

Murdoch, Iris on churches
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"A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia."

Murdoch, Iris on criticism   

"My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand -- like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate."

Hepburn, Katharine on common sense   

"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."

Murdoch, Iris on present   

"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods."

Murdoch, Iris on art   

"But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art."

Murdoch, Iris on fantasy   

"Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end."

Murdoch, Iris on goodness   

"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self."

Murdoch, Iris on happiness   

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."

Murdoch, Iris on judgment and judges   

"A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the fa?ade of his appearance."

Murdoch, Iris on appearance   

"Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions."

Murdoch, Iris on literature   

"No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base."

Murdoch, Iris on love   

"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."

Murdoch, Iris on love
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"Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic."

Murdoch, Iris on moralists
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"If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen."

DeVos, Richard M. on dream
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"Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations."

DeVos, Richard M. on expectation
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"Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents."

Hepburn, Katharine on love
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"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."

Hepburn, Katharine on marriage
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"Acting is the perfect idiot's profession."

Hepburn, Katharine on acting and actors   

"The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four."

Hepburn, Katharine on acting and actors   

"If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you."

Hepburn, Katharine on acting and actors   

"I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."

Hepburn, Katharine on regret
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"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."

Hepburn, Katharine on rules
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"To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time."

Hepburn, Katharine on character
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"As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work."

Hepburn, Katharine on work
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"The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession."

Murdoch, Iris on pride   

"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around."

Hepburn, Katharine on life
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"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend."

Hepburn, Katharine on hollywood
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"Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none."

DeVos, Richard M. on money
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"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!"

DeVos, Richard M. on perseverance
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"The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It's cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner."

DeVos, Richard M. on possibilities   

"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough."

DeVos, Richard M. on praise
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