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Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Art
Smile
History
Ends
Philosophy
Beginning
Cosmopolitan
In The Beginning
Parochial
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The difficulty in life is the choice.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Life
Difficulty
Choice
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Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Heaven
Remorse
Feeling
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Men never get free from morality, only women.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Morality
Free
Women Men Free
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The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Reasonable
Seems
Way
Wrong Way
Way Always More
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Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Plagiarism
Making
Taking
Worse
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A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Letters
Pen
Sharpens
Slum
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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
George A. Moore / Novelist
Dream
Love
Running
Reality
Why
Destroy
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An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Tomorrow
Today Tomorrow World
Impersonal
Yours
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England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.
George A. Moore / Novelist
British
British Empire
England
Novel
Empire
Produced
Shakespeare
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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Home
Travel
Needs
World
Home Travel World
Home Man World
Man
He
Find
Over
Returns
Search
Travels
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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Sets
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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?
George A. Moore / Novelist
Devoted
Energy
Purpose
Talents
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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.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Believes
Claim
His Way
Whomever
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I have written 30,000 words in a month - think of it - 30,000! I hope I am putting the right number of naughts: an average of a thousand words a day! For thirty days!
George A. Moore / Novelist
Average
Thirty
Month
Thousand Words
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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.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Policemen
Priests
Serious
Deserves
Succeeded
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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.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Brilliant
Middle
Aged
Behind
Career
Believe I Believe Man
Enable
Interestingly
Sufficiently
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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.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Over It
Paradox
Worried
Gain
Truth Time Good
Good Deal
Qualities
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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.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Dublin
Sea
Suburbs
Truth Is
Woods
Decaying
Most Beautiful
Roads
Winding
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'The Dublin Magazine' has been edited with good taste, and it is very agreeable reading, but to speak quite candidly, I do not believe in the future of any literary journal any more than I believe in the future of the Trinity.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Dublin
Edited
Good Taste
Journal
Taste
Trinity
Future Good Believe
Agreeable
Literary
Magazine
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Dublin dwindles so beautifully; there is no harsh separation between it and the country. It fades away, whereas London seems to devour the country; an army of buildings come and take away a beautiful park, and you never seem to get quite out of sight of a row of houses.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Army
Dublin
Fades
Harsh
Separation
Sight
Beautifully
Buildings
Devour
Houses
Park
Row
Whereas
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The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every man brings different instincts and ideas into the world with him.
George A. Moore / Novelist
East
Ethics
Every Man
Folly
Personal Life
Unknown
Life Good Society
Brings
Instincts
Holds
Invade
Manner
Oriental
Stands
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Isn't it strange that religious prejudices - beliefs none possess, not even the saints, so they have lamented - divide brothers and sons from their fathers. You see, I except mothers and sisters; the female is not a religious animal. If she were, the world would have ceased long ago.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Animal
Female
Strange
Beliefs
Brothers
Sisters
Divide
Except
Fathers
Mothers
None
Possess
Prejudices
Saints
Sons
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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.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Religion
Salvation
Universal Language
Believe People I Believe
Religion Believe People
Religion Believe I Believe
Arts
Avail
Feeling
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Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my pleasure is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts rise to the surface and sink back again, making way for selfish instincts, each equally necessary, for the world would perish were it to become entirely selfish or entirely unselfish.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Ants
Bees
Human Mind
Insects
Selfish
Unselfish
Rise
Instincts
Entirely
Equally
Habits
Noting
Perish
Sink
Some Men
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