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[Honors: At his funeral, Charlie Chaplin read Dreiser's poem,] The Road I Came. ... American writing before and after his time differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin. He was a man of large originality, of profound feeling and of unshakable courage. All of us who write are better off because he lived, worked and hoped. - Theodore Dreiser Quotes

[Honors: At his funeral, Charlie Chaplin read Dreiser's poem,] The Road I Came. ... American writing before and after his time differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin. He was a man of large originality, of profound feeling and of unshakable courage. All of us who write are better off because he lived, worked and hoped.

Theodore Dreiser

Nothing is proved, all is permitted. - Theodore Dreiser Quotes

Nothing is proved, all is permitted.

Theodore Dreiser

American Novelist

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 Quotes

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

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 Quotes

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

Man

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. - Theodore Dreiser Quotes

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Theodore Dreiser

American Novelist

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance - Theodore Dreiser Quotes

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance

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 Quotes

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

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 Quotes

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

If I were personally to define religion I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance. (attributed) - Theodore Dreiser Quotes

If I were personally to define religion I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance. (attributed)

Theodore Dreiser

Circumstance Religion

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

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

Theodore Dreiser

American Novelist

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