emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.
Iris MurdochThe most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
Iris MurdochWe 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