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Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (/ˈdraɪsər, -zər/; August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was 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 Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925). In 1930 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Swedish author Anders Österling.

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We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example, by insistence on fair play wherever we have the power to do so. The rest is in the hands of the Lord, or nature, which swings, apparently, from one extreme to another.

Extreme, Fighting, Hands, Nature, Swings

Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in a sense of the impressive and the gorgeous, and rests there. Accuracy is not necessary except in the case of aggressive, acquisitive natures, when it manifests itself in a desire to seize. True controlling sensuousness cannot be manifested in the most active dispositions, nor again in the most accurate.

Color, Desire, Rarely, Rests, Sunshine

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

Art, Honey, Sadness, Stored, Travail, Wings

I will kneel and strike my breast, then touch the dust with my forehead; I will, I will. Only do not forsake me, oh god of beauty.

Beauty, Dust, Forsake, God, Strike, Strikes

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

Attempt, Bundle, Character, Definition, Honesty, World

When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough.

Becomes, Desire, Eye, Men, Obstacle, Passively

Theodore Dreiser Should ought to write nicer.

Dreiser, Nicer, Ought, Should, Write, Writing

Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.

Like, Next, Pit, Pits, Write, Writing

The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation to put a better face on evil than it normally wears.

Bad, Evil, Faces, Normally, Race

Remember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave.

Giving, Grave, Love, Love Is, Remember

Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.

Football, Morality, People, Strong, Wherewith, Winning

Shakespeare, I come !

Last Words, Shakespeare, Come

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 circumstances. All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again. I cite the great civilizations of China and India.

Circumstances, Civilization, Forms, Man, Men, Past

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.

Give, Giving, Love, Love Is, Love You, Thing

I believe in the compelling power of love.

Believe, Compelling, Love, Power, Power Of Love

Depend upon it; from every condition of distress or evil, there is a great reaction, and the greater the distress or evil, the greater the reaction.

Condition, Distress, Evil, Greater, Reactions, Wickedness

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 circustance.

Atheist, Circustance, Invented, Men, Personally, Soul

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.

Allowed, Business, Man, Men, Strong

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.

Believe, Existence, Love, Thorny, Understand

The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly. . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or rage or irony, as the moment or situation might dictate, I have pondered and even demanded of cosmic energy to know Why.

Cruelty, Energy, Greater, Might, Waking

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