Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning, whatever art may otherwise pretend in order to console us.
Iris MurdochThere is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
Iris MurdochGood writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
Iris Murdoch