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" JE says, a literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially. "
'Hail and Farewell!' - Page 175
by George Moore - 1914
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Ireland's Literary Renaissance

Ernest Augustus Boyd - English literature - 1916 - 426 pages
...events, a consciousness of literary identity. "A literary movement," says a well-known Irish poet, "consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially." This boutade provoked by the constant references to "the Irish Literary Movement," is as close to the...
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English Literature During the Last Half Century

John William Cunliffe - English literature - 1919 - 332 pages
...your mind that is indecent," we detect invention, as in the definition put in the mouth of "AE": — "A literary movement consists of five or six people,...live in the same town and hate each other cordially." It was a good thing that Moore said "Farewell" to Ireland in the last volume, for he could certainly...
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The Collected Works of George Moore: Hail and farewell

George Moore - Painting, Modern - 1923 - 324 pages
...colleen had observed these many years were regretted, somewhat hypocritically I think, for, as .Si! says, a literary movement consists of five or six...genuinely interested to discover the cause of it. JE was certain that he would have written volume after volume if he had never sought a style, if he...
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Midwest Portraits: A Book of Memories and Friendships

Harry Hansen - Social Science - 1923 - 374 pages
...DIABOLICAL STRAIGHT BLACK LINE 287 11 BEN HECHT, PAGLIACCI OF THE FIRE ESCAPE 303 Well-Traveled Highway. A literary movement consists of five or six people...live in the same town and hate each other cordially. AE WHEN this book began to be written the hands of the big wall clock at Schlogl's had already advanced...
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James Joyce, a Critical Introduction

Harry Levin - 1941 - 276 pages
...Ireland's. A literary movement has been defined, by one of the epigones of the Celtic renascence, as "five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially." When the people are Irishmen and the town is Dublin, the possibilities are fairly electric. Joyce,...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...understand. 7838 Ireland is a fatal disease; fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen. 7839 field, and, foremost MOOREHenry 1831-1895 7840 Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I...
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Book of Humorous Quotations

Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...considered respectable. 2960 Ireland is a fatal disease; fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen. A literary movement consists of five or six people...live in the same town and hate each other cordially. MOORE Marianne 1887-1972 2962 I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish. 2963 Poetry is all nouns and...
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Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader

David Pierce - History - 2000 - 1380 pages
...Yeats's colleen had observed these many years were regretted, somewhat hypocritically I think, for, as AE says, a literary movement consists of five or six...genuinely interested to discover the cause of it. AE was certain that he would have written volume after volume if he had never sought a style, if he...
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