“I have always noticed that when a fellow wants to finish a play, the only way to do it is to go away to the country and leave no address.”

—  George Moore (novelist)

Vain Fortune, Chapter 1.

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Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoi… 1852–1933

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