Quotes by Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser

A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o’-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality upon which it feeds.

Flames

Love Is

Real

All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again.

Atheism

Past

World

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

Art

Sadness

Wings

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.

Men

Scary

Wife

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

Pits

Writing

How dismal is progress without publicity.

Progress

Publicity

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

I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their hand closed over a something that was not to be felt nor longer seen, mere colored air.

Air

Hands

Success

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.

Civilization

Men

Past

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

Men

Soul

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Air

Art

Atheism

Atheist

Beast

Believe

Brilliant

Character

Chemicals

Civilization

Color

Delight

Desire

Evil

Existence

Eye

Faces

Fall

Flames

Girl

Giving

Hands

Heart

Home

Honesty

Ifs

Important

Individual

Intuition

Joy

Love

Love Is

Lying

Men

Needs

New York

Ought

Past

Pawns

Pits

Plans

Progress

Publicity

Race

Real

Remains

Remember

Rooms

Sadness

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Quotes by Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser

A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o’-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality upon which it feeds.

All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again.

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

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.

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

How dismal is progress without publicity.

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.

I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their hand closed over a something that was not to be felt nor longer seen, mere colored air.

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.

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.

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