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George Moore
A man travels...
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
Reality can destroy...
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
Source: In...
Taking something from...
Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
Source: In...
The wrong way...
The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
Everybody sets out...
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to...
A literary movement...
A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other...
Faith goes out...
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
Source: In The...
Art must be...
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
Source:...
A very slight...
A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the...
Nothing is more...
Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero.
Source: In...
Genius and stupidity...
Genius and stupidity never stray from their respective paths; talent wanders to and fro, following every...
Remorse is beholding...
Remorse is beholding heaven and feeling hell.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
My one claim...
My one claim to originality among Irishmen is that I have never made a speech.
There is nothing...
There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's...
The lot of...
The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.
Source:...
The difference between...
The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is that I leave out the inverted...
To be aristocratic...
To be aristocratic in Art one must avoid polite society
Source: Enemies of Promise,...
The difficulty in...
The difficulty in life is the choice.
Source: The Bending of the Bough, [1900], act...
God is a...
God is a great expense but government would be impossible without him.
Source: In...
The world is...
The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy...
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