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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
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
