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"17 George Moore Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 24 February 1852. Died: 21 January 1933 | Novelist | Writer | Poet | Critic | Dramatist |

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Man World Search Needs
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Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

Art must Parochial Cosmopolitan
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The difficulty in life is the choice.

Difficulty In life Choice
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Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

Taking something Man Worse Plagiarism
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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Reality Destroy Dream
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The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
Wrong way Seems Reasonable
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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

Everybody Sets out Do something Does
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A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.

A man Letters Objects Sharpens
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An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.

An idea Impersonal Today Tomorrow
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To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?

Better purpose Devoted Talents Resuscitation
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Men never get free from morality, only women.
Man never Free Morality
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The right I claim is that of every human being to speak what he believes to be the truth to whomever he may meet on his way.

Right Claim Human being Speak
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An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

Idea Running Books Gain qualities
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Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.

Every race Religion Policemen Priests
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The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.

The truth Love Beautiful Mountains
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I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.

Believe Universal religion Language Feeling
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You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about many things interestingly; and I am not an unkindly soul, I believe.

You will Aged man Career Brilliant
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George Moore Quotes & Sayings