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For years I have been crouching in corners hissing small and ladylike anathema of Theodore Dreiser. — Dorothy Parker

All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again. — Theodore Dreiser

Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain. — Theodore Dreiser

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. — Theodore Dreiser

What matter it if a man gaineth the whole world and loseth his own soul? — Theodore Dreiser

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely. — Theodore Dreiser

Nothing is proved, all is permitted. — Theodore Dreiser

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. — Theodore Dreiser

For a while he sat idly outside his door brooding in the spring sun.

In "The Lost Phoebe". — Dreiser Theodore

Shakespeare, I come ! — Theodore Dreiser

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything. — Theodore Dreiser

If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing. — Theodore Dreiser

What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers. — Dorothy Parker

A thought will color a world for us. — Theodore Dreiser

Depend upon it; from every condition of distress or evil, there is a great reaction, and the greater the distress or evil, the greater the reaction. — Theodore Dreiser

I will kneel and strike my breast, then touch the dust with my forehead; I will, I will. Only do not forsake me, oh god of beauty. — Theodore Dreiser

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him. — Theodore Dreiser

How dismal is progress without publicity. — Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser Should ought to write nicer. — Theodore Dreiser

Only in rare instances and with rare individuals does there seem to be any guiding light from within. — Theodore Dreiser

It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp. — Theodore Dreiser

I acknowledge the Furies. I believe in them. I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings. — Theodore Dreiser

Conservatism
hard work
saving one's money
looking neat and gentlemanly. It was such an Eveless paradise, that. — Theodore Dreiser

A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoitre the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy ... — Theodore Dreiser

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards. — Theodore Dreiser

His brain was his office. — Theodore Dreiser

Why must women torment me so? — Theodore Dreiser

Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points. — Theodore Dreiser

Oh, blessed are the children of endeavor in this, that they try and are hopeful. And blessed also are they who, knowing, smile and approve. — Theodore Dreiser

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. — Theodore Dreiser

Art is the stored honey of the human soul. — Theodore Dreiser

You walk into a room, see a woman, and something happens. It's chemical. What are you going to do about it? — Theodore Dreiser

I was a moral coward, and he was not losing his life and desires through fear - which the majority of us do. — Theodore Dreiser

She merely beamed a fatty beam. She was almost ponderous, and pink, with a tendency to a double chin. — Theodore Dreiser

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. — Theodore Dreiser

Remember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave. — Theodore Dreiser

Every person according to his light," said Ames "You must help the world express itself. Use will make your powers endure ... — Theodore Dreiser