George A. Moore — Irish Novelist born on February 24, 1852, died on January 21, 1933

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... (wikipedia)

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.