Theodore Dreiser Quotes

• A thought will color a world for us.

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• Art Is The Stored Honey Of The Human Soul.

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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.

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  Tags in Words, Inaudible, Audible, Writing

• 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.

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• Nothing is proved, all is permitted.

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

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  Tags in Pity, Underestimate, Fiercely, Rage, Universe

• In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

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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.

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  Tags in Wives, Frighten, Fish, Man

• 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.

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

  Theodore Dreiser

  Topics in Art, Soul

  Tags in Misery, Wing

• 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.

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Theodore Dreiser (11)

Birth:	27th August, 1871
Death:	28th December, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, Novelist

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