This date in 1919 saw the birth of writer Iris Murdoch. Here are 10 Iris Murdoch quotes:
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
We can only learn to love by loving.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.
The first in a new series! It has invading aliens, gladiator-style contests, rivalry and romance.
The six richest people in Britain decide to hold a contest to settle the question of which of them is most successful. It will be a gladiator style contest with each entrant fielding a team of ten super-powered combatants. Entrepreneur Llew Powell sets out to put together his team, which includes his former lover, an employee of his company with a fascinating hobby, two refugees from another dimension (a lonely giant and a drunken sailor), two sisters bound together by a promise, a diminutive doctor, a former Tibetan monk initiate and two androids with a history. As the team train together, alliances form, friendships and more develop, while others find the past is not easy to leave behind.
Meanwhile, a ruthless race of aliens has its eyes on the Earth. Already abducting and enslaving humans, they work towards the final invasion which would destroy life on Earth as we know it. Powell’s group, Combat Team Alpha, stumble upon one of the wormholes the aliens use to travel to Earth and witness for themselves the horrors in store if the aliens aren’t stopped. Barely escaping with their lives, they realise there are more important things to worry about than a fighting competition.
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