The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant… the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak - and so very, very many.
Nothing is proved, all is permitted. - Theodore Dreiser
Nothing is proved, all is permitted.
- Theodore Dreiser
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… - Theodore Dreiser
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…
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. - Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything. - Theodore Dreiser
Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.
Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards. - Theodore Dreiser
Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.
Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire. - Theodore Dreiser
Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.
How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. - Theodore Dreiser
How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.
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
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.
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 m… - Theodore Dreiser
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 m…
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