Irish - Novelist | February 24, 1852 - January 21, 1933
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
George A. Moore
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A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.
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England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.
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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?
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An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.
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Men never get free from morality, only women.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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