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George Augustus Moore - irlandzki pisarz, poeta, krytyk, dramaturg, twórca pamiętników.

Moore pochodził z katolickiej rodziny, urodził się w Moore Hall w hrabstwie Mayo. Początkowo pragnął zostać malarzem, co zaowocowało studiami artystycznymi w Paryżu w latach 70. XIX wieku. Przebywając we Francji, poznał wielu czołowych francuskich twórców tego okresu.

Był pierwszym anglojęzycznym pisarzem epoki naturalizmu, który działał pod wpływem Émile Zoli. Zgodnie z teorią krytyka Richarda Ellmanna, jego dzieła stanowiły jedną z inspiracji dla Jamesa Joyce’a i chociaż może się wydawać, że prace Moore’a nie wpisują się w główny nurt panujący zarówno w irlandzkiej, jak i brytyjskiej literaturze, często uznaje się go za pierwszego wielkiego współczesnego irlandzkiego pisarza.

Jako jeden ze współtwórców Irish Literary Theatre w znaczący sposób przyczynił się do powstania Abbey Theatre. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Luty 1852 – 21. Styczeń 1933   •   Natępne imiona Georgie Moore
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George Augustus Moore: Cytaty po angielsku

“I will admit that an artist may be great and limited; by one word he may light up an abyss of soul; but there must be this one magical and unique word.”

Źródło: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 12.
Kontekst: I will admit that an artist may be great and limited; by one word he may light up an abyss of soul; but there must be this one magical and unique word. Shakespeare gives us the word, Balzac, sometimes, after pages of vain striving, gives us the word, Tourgueneff gives it with miraculous certainty; but Henry James, no; a hundred times he flutters about it; his whole book is one long flutter near to the one magical and unique word, but the word is not spoken; and for want of the word his characters are never resolved out of the haze of nebulae. You are on a bowing acquaintance with them; they pass you in the street, they stop and speak to you, you know how they are dressed, you watch the colour of their eyes.

“The public will accept a masterpiece, but it will not accept an attempt to write a masterpiece.”

Vain Fortune http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11303/11303.txt, Chapter 1 (1891).

“Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.”

Impressions and Opinions (1891): "Mummer-Worship".

“All reformers are bachelors.”

Act I http://books.google.com/books?id=HWs-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22All+reformers+are+bachelors%22&pg=PA14#v=onepage
The Bending of the Bough (1900)

“Terrible is the day when each sees his soul naked, stripped of all veil; that dear soul which he cannot change or discard, and which is so irreparably his.”

Źródło: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 1.

“One must be in London to see the spring.”

Źródło: Memoirs of My Dead Life http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8mmdl10.txt (1906), Ch. 1: Spring in London

“Self is man's main business; all outside of self is uncertain, all comes from self, all returns to self.”

Źródło: Memoirs of My Dead Life http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8mmdl10.txt (1906), Ch. 12: Sunday Evening in London

“Ugliness is trivial, the monstrous is terrible.”

Źródło: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 3.

“Humanity is a pigsty, where lions, hypocrites, and the obscene in spirit congregate.”

Źródło: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 16.

“Faith goes out of the window when beauty comes in at the door.”

The Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11304/11304-8.txt (1905) [Appleton, 2005, digitized edition], ch. IX (p. 169).

“The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be denied that dogma draws a circle round the mind.”

Hail and Farewell (1912), vol. 2: Salve, Kessinger Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-417-93272-4, ch. XV (p. 36).

“But if you want to be a painter you must go to France — France is the only school of Art.”

Źródło: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 1.

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

The Brook Kerith http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12821/12821-h/12821-h.htm, ch. 11 (1916).

“It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.”

Źródło: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 6.

“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.”

Letter to Lady Emerald Cunard, quoted in The Everything Wedding Vows Book : Anything and Everything You Could Possibly Say at the Altar, and then Some. (2001) by Janet Anastasio and Michelle Bevilacqua, p. 97.

“It would appear that practical morality consists in making the meeting of men and women as casual as that of animals.”

Apologia Pro Scriptis Meis.
Memoirs of My Dead Life http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8mmdl10.txt (1906)

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

Źródło: As quoted in Conversations with George Moore (1929) by Geraint Goodwin, p. 123