Scrittrice Murdoch Quotes & Sayings

There is no one more likely to destroy us than the person we marry. — Alain De Botton

Historians rewrite the truth every day. What interests us is the truth that gets the reader to reach for his wallet — Andrei Makine

It was great to essentially have two protagonists where you're sympathies could go back and forth between the two of them, throughout the season. — Tony Goldwyn

You don't need to get anyone else to agree with your truth.
You just need to live it. — Alan Cohen

The majority understood that his passivity was not that of a hero taking his ease but that of a cataclysm in repose. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes. — Marlon Brando

The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers. — Lance Morrow

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. — Samuel Johnson

Rakitin doesn't understand it, all he wants is to build his house and rent out rooms ... Life is simple for Rakitin: 'You'd do better to worry about extending mans civil rights,' he told me today, 'or at least about not letting the price of beef go up; you'd render your love for mankind more simply and directly that way than with any philosophies.' But I came back at him: 'And without God,' I said, 'you'll hike up the price of beef yourself, if the chance comes your way, and make a rouble on every kopeck. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil, what will give you joy or pain, what you will love or hate, desire or fear, depends on your standard of value. — Ayn Rand