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Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.


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IRIS MURDOCH Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re f...
IRIS MURDOCH We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do...
IRIS APFEL Men all across China are going to have trouble finding wives in just a few years.
IRIS CHANG I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People...
IRIS APFEL Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
IRIS MURDOCH I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip ...
IRIS APFEL 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 I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all...
IRIS APFEL 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 I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I l...
IRIS APFEL ...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 I was never a fan of Chanel. I liked it on other people. Some other people. All the ladies who were ...
IRIS APFEL Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of th...
IRIS APFEL You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy thi...
IRIS APFEL 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