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A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

George Moore

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

All reformers are bachelors—all extreme reformers have been bachelors.

George Moore

We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.

George Moore

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it... you and you alone make me feel that I am alive... Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

George Moore

George Moore

George Moore

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Born: February 24, 1852

Died: January 21, 1933 (aged 80)

Bio: George Augustus Moore was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo.

Known for:

Esther Waters (1894)
Confessions of a Young Man (1889)
A mummer's wife (1885)
A drama in muslin (1886)
The brook Kerith (1916)

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