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George Moore (novelist) quotes
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore (novelist)
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
George Moore (novelist)
The difficulty in life is the choice.
George Moore (novelist)
The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be denied that dogma draws a circle round the mind.
George Moore (novelist)
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
George Moore (novelist)
After all there is but one race - humanity.
George Moore (novelist)
We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.
George Moore (novelist)
Self is man's main business; all outside of self is uncertain, all comes from self, all returns to self.
George Moore (novelist)
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
George Moore (novelist)
Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.
George Moore (novelist)
The public will accept a masterpiece, but it will not accept an attempt to write a masterpiece.
George Moore (novelist)
I have always noticed that when a fellow wants to finish a play, the only way to do it is to go away to the country and leave no address.
George Moore (novelist)
Faith goes out of the window when beauty comes in at the door.
George Moore (novelist)
Terrible is the day when each sees his soul naked, stripped of all veil; that dear soul which he cannot change or discard, and which is so irreparably his.
George Moore (novelist)
But if you want to be a painter you must go to France - France is the only school of Art.
George Moore (novelist)
It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.
George Moore (novelist)
The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
George Moore (novelist)
Love - but not marriage. Marriage means a four-post bed and papa and mamma between eleven and twelve. Love is aspiration: transparencies, colour, light, a sense of the unreal. But a wife - you know all about her - who her father was, who her mother was, what she thinks of you and her opinion of the neighbours over the way. Where, then, is the dream?
George Moore (novelist)
All reformers are bachelors.
George Moore (novelist)
It would appear that practical morality consists in making the meeting of men and women as casual as that of animals.
George Moore (novelist)
I am filled with pride when I think of the noble and exalted world that must have existed before Christian doctrine caused men to look upon women with suspicion and bade them to think of angels instead.
George Moore (novelist)
One must be in London to see the spring.
George Moore (novelist)
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