Theodore Dreiser Quotes
Top 34 wise famous quotes and sayings by Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
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.
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.
Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.
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.
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.
hard work
saving one's money
looking neat and gentlemanly. It was such an Eveless paradise, that.
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.
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.