George Moore
» Choice » “The difficulty in life is the choice.”
» Contradiction » “Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.”
» Humankind » “After all there is but one race — humanity.”
» Literature » “A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.”
» Love » “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
» Plagiarism » “Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.”
» Poverty and The Poor » “The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.”
» Reality » “Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality?”
» Remorse » “Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.”
» Respectability » “No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.”
» Trials » “There is nothing so consoling as to find one’s neighbor’s troubles are at least as great as one’s own.”
