Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiserwas 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 Carrieand An American Tragedy. In 1930 he was nominated to the Nobel Prize in Literature...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 August 1871
CityTerre Haute, IN
writing should theodore
Theodore Dreiser Should ought to write nicer.
race evil faces
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.
believe wings fury
I acknowledge the Furies. I believe in them. I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings.
eye power heaven
Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and delight is like the mirage in the heavens, only plain to the eye outside; within is nothing.
writing next pits
Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.
past atheism world
All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again.
men past civilization
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.
remains true-meaning
The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.
women torment
Why must women torment me so?
dream nature real
Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this dream of a god or what he stands for us real in our thoughts and deeds, then he is not real or true.
love rooms chemicals
You walk into a room, see a woman, and something happens. It's chemical. What are you going to do about it?
believe power-of-love compelling
I believe in the compelling power of love.
important pawns individual
It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or less pawns. We're moved about like chessmen by circumstances over which we have no control.
love-you love-is giving
Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.