Quote by Iris Murdoch
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in lov

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. – Iris Murdoch

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

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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. – Iris Murdoch

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A good businessman never makes a contract unless hes sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not. – Dalton Trumbo

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If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didnt, Id ignore it. – Carol Ann Duffy

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Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love. – Jackie Gleason

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The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily – thats the tragedy. – Olivia Wilde

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For children preserve the fame of a man after his death. – Aeschylus

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