I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up.


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Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accur...
IRIS MURDOCH
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and livel...
IRIS MURDOCH
Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.
IRIS MURDOCH
Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story
IRIS MURDOCH
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitu...
IRIS MURDOCH
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins
IRIS MURDOCH
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats
IRIS MURDOCH
We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing
IRIS MURDOCH
I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
IRIS MURDOCH
Often what is deeply offensive to Chinese-Americans that they are really well-represented in medicin...
IRIS CHANG
But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and aff...
IRIS MURDOCH
These episodes of racism occur in cycles.
IRIS CHANG
Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minu...
IRIS CHANG
I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
IRIS CHANG
Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, an...
IRIS CHANG
The Japanese even forced fathers to rape their own daughters or sons their mothers, brothers their s...
IRIS CHANG
While the light remains,' said Carde, speaking slowly in his high deliberate voice, 'only do not for...
IRIS MURDOCH
Amo amas amat amamus amatis amant amavi amavisti amavit amavimus amavistis amaverunt amavero amaveri...
IRIS MURDOCH
Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re f...
IRIS MURDOCH
Men all across China are going to have trouble finding wives in just a few years.
IRIS CHANG
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
IRIS MURDOCH
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereb...
IRIS JOHANSEN
... male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a ...
IRIS MURDOCH
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
IRIS MURDOCH
What is more tormenting than a meeting after a long time, when all the words fall to the ground like...
IRIS MURDOCH
...lace is formed from the absence of substance; it is imagined in the spaces between the threads. L...
IRIS ANTHONY
Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn t...
IRIS MURDOCH
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
IRIS CHANG
Love generates, or rather reveals, something which may be called absolute charm. In the beloved noth...
IRIS MURDOCH
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more ...
IRIS MURDOCH
Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ...
IRIS MURDOCH
I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail, those...
IRIS MURDOCH
Where you are,there I'll be.Make up your mind to it.You may not love me now bt you will.I'll see to ...
IRIS JOHANSEN
People were worried; they thought we were going to go to nuclear war when there was a conflict with ...
IRIS WEINSHALL
We find stuff all the time, but what's sort of eerie about this is that this is a bridge that thousa...
IRIS WEINSHALL
In attempting to minimize congestion, perhaps we were more cautious than we should have been.
IRIS WEINSHALL
It's not like we're putting this on eBay.
IRIS WEINSHALL