Read a review of Jackson's Dilemma , Murdoch's work about a group of upper-crust friends. Read this short biography of Iris Murdoch. We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
Writing is like getting married.
One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the fa ade of his appearance. No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.