George Moore

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George Moore


Born
in Moore Hall, near Lough Carra (County Mayo), Ireland
February 24, 1852

Died
January 21, 1933

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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. He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s. There, he befriended many of the leading French artists and writers of the day.

As a naturalistic writer, he was amongst the first English-language authors to absorb the lessons of the French realists, and was particularly influenced by the works of Émile Zola. His writings influenced James Joyce, according to the literary critic and biographer Richard Ellmann, and, although Moore's work is sometimes seen as outside the mainstream of both Irish and British literat
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Quotes by George Moore  (?)
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“We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.”
George Moore

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
George Augustus Moore, The Brook Kerith

“Reality can destroy the dream, why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality.”
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