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

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

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

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

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

Nothing is proved, all is permitted.

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

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

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

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 Should ought to write nicer.

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.

Shakespeare, I come !

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

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

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.

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

How dismal is progress without publicity.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

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

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.

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

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

A thought will color a world for us.

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

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

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

His brain was his office.

Why must women torment me so?

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

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.

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

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.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul.