We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom Author: Iris Murdoch Copy Quote More from Iris Murdoch “thinking about the misery of the world is a favourite contemporary occupation. …” “There was something factitious and brittle and thereby utterly feminine about h…” “Even those novelists most commonly deemed “philosophical” have sometimes answer…” “I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a priv…”