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Theodore Dreiser
American
Novelist
About the author
Nothing is proved, all is permitted.
Theodore Dreiser,
American
Novelist
#Nothing
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,
American
Novelist
#Words
#Feelings
#Shadows
Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.
Theodore Dreiser,
American
Novelist
#Reason
#Civilization
#Instinct
Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.
Theodore Dreiser,
American
Novelist
#Universe
#Pity
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
Theodore Dreiser,
American
Novelist
#Ignorance
#Wisdom
#Order
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,
American
Novelist
#Love
#Power
#Existence
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Dreiser,
American
Novelist
#Art
#Soul
#Misery
Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.
Theodore Dreiser,
American
Novelist
#Man
#Old
#Soul
#Fish
#Wives