Seamus Heaney
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Theodore Herman Albert Dreiserwas an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency.
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Theodore Herman Albert Dreiserwas an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Dreiser’s best known novels include Sister Carrieand An American Tragedy (1925).
8 Quotes by Theodore Dreiser
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Nothing is proved, all is permitted.
Theodore DreiserAmerican novelist and journalist (1871-1945)
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Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.
Theodore DreiserAmerican novelist and journalist (1871-1945)
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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore DreiserAmerican novelist and journalist (1871-1945)
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Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
Theodore DreiserAmerican novelist and journalist (1871-1945)
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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 DreiserAmerican novelist and journalist (1871-1945)
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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 DreiserAmerican novelist and journalist (1871-1945)
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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 DreiserAmerican novelist and journalist (1871-1945)
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In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
Theodore DreiserAmerican novelist and journalist (1871-1945)