Quote by Iris Murdoch
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly tak

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. – Iris Murdoch

Other quotes by Iris Murdoch

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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Survival
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. – Iris Murdoch

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Love
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Marriage
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Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too. – Sonia Johnson

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Marriage

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. – Lord Byron

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Marriage

There are going to be peaks and valleys in everything – in your marriage, in your job, in your life. So just enjoy the peaks and ride out the valleys. Just try not to do anything too rash. – Ricky Schroder

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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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Marriage

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