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The Nice and the Good

Name: The Nice and the Good
Author: Iris Murdoch

The Nice and the Good is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1968, it was her eleventh novel. The Nice and the Good was shortlisted for the 1969 Booker Prize.

“Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonising preoccupation with self.”

Iris Murdoch book The Nice and the Good

The Nice and the Good (1968), ch. 22.

“Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.”

Iris Murdoch book The Nice and the Good

The Nice and the Good (1968), ch. 14, p. 127.
Murdoch attributed this opinion to her character Kate Gray. It was not her own.

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