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Theodore Dreiser Quote: “I was a moral coward, and he was not losing his life and desires through fear – which the majority of us do.”

51. “I was a moral coward, and he was not losing his life and desires through fear – which the majority of us do.”

— Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser Quote: “I believe in the compelling power of love.”

52. “I believe in the compelling power of love.”

— Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser Quote: “Shakespeare, I come !”

53. “Shakespeare, I come !”

— Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser Quote: “As they sang, this nondescript and indifferent street audience gazed, held by the peculiarity of such an unimportant-looking family publicly raising its collective voice against the vast skepticism and apathy of life.”

54. “As they sang, this nondescript and indifferent street audience gazed, held by the peculiarity of such an unimportant-looking family publicly raising its collective voice against the vast skepticism and apathy of life.”

— Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser Quote: “He paused, wishing to embrace her, but feeling for the moment that he should not. Then, reaching into a waistcoat pocket, he took from it a thin gold locket, the size of a silver dollar, which he opened and handed to her. One interior face of it was lined with a photograph of Berenice as a girl of twelve, thin, delicate, supercilious, self-contained, distant, as she was to this hour.”

55. “He paused, wishing to embrace her, but feeling for the moment that he should not. Then, reaching into a waistcoat pocket, he took from it a thin gold locket, the size of a silver dollar, which he opened and handed to her. One interior face of it was lined with a photograph of Berenice as a girl of twelve, thin, delicate, supercilious, self-contained, distant, as she was to this hour.”

— Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser Quote: “She looked into her glass and saw a prettier Carrie than she had seen before; she looked into her mind, a mirror prepared of her own and the world’s opinions, and saw a worse. Between these two images she wavered, hesitating which to believe.”

56. “She looked into her glass and saw a prettier Carrie than she had seen before; she looked into her mind, a mirror prepared of her own and the world’s opinions, and saw a worse. Between these two images she wavered, hesitating which to believe.”

— Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser Quote: “It was that old mass yearning for a likeness in all things that troubled them, and him.”

57. “It was that old mass yearning for a likeness in all things that troubled them, and him.”

— Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser Quote: “How dismal is progress without publicity.”

58. “How dismal is progress without publicity.”

— Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser Quote: “I was in Chicago before I came here, but I didn’t do so very much dancing. I had to work.” He was thinking how such girls as she had everything, as contrasted with girls like Roberta, who had nothing. And yet, as he now felt in this instance, he liked Roberta better. She was sweeter and warmer and kinder – not so cold.”

59. “I was in Chicago before I came here, but I didn’t do so very much dancing. I had to work.” He was thinking how such girls as she had everything, as contrasted with girls like Roberta, who had nothing. And yet, as he now felt in this instance, he liked Roberta better. She was sweeter and warmer and kinder – not so cold.”

— Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser Quote: “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.”

60. “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.”

— Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser Quote: “The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.”

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

— Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser Quote: “People like money even more than they do looks.”

62. “People like money even more than they do looks.”

— Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser Quote: “Thus in life there is ever the intellectual and the emotional nature – the mind that reasons, and the mind that feels. Of one come the men of action – generals and statesmen; of the other, the poets and dreamers – artists all.”

63. “Thus in life there is ever the intellectual and the emotional nature – the mind that reasons, and the mind that feels. Of one come the men of action – generals and statesmen; of the other, the poets and dreamers – artists all.”

— Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser Quote: “For these local families of distinction were convinced that not only one’s family but one’s wealth was the be-all and end-all of every happy union meant to include social security. And in consequence, while considering Clyde as one who was unquestionably eligible socially, still, because it had been whispered about that his means were very slender, they were not inclined to look upon him as one who might aspire to marriage with any of their daughters.”

64. “For these local families of distinction were convinced that not only one’s family but one’s wealth was the be-all and end-all of every happy union meant to include social security. And in consequence, while considering Clyde as one who was unquestionably eligible socially, still, because it had been whispered about that his means were very slender, they were not inclined to look upon him as one who might aspire to marriage with any of their daughters.”

— Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser Quote: “Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.”

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

— Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser Quote: “The nature of these vast retail combinations, should they ever permanently disappear, will form an interesting chapter in the commercial history of our nation.”

66. “The nature of these vast retail combinations, should they ever permanently disappear, will form an interesting chapter in the commercial history of our nation.”

— Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser Quote: “Raw, glittering force, however, compounded of the cruel Machiavellianism of nature, if it is to be but Machiavellian, seems to exercise a profound attraction for the conventionally rooted. Your cautious citizen of average means, looking out through the eye of his dull world of seeming fact, is often the first to forgive or condone the grim butcheries of theory by which the strong rise.”

67. “Raw, glittering force, however, compounded of the cruel Machiavellianism of nature, if it is to be but Machiavellian, seems to exercise a profound attraction for the conventionally rooted. Your cautious citizen of average means, looking out through the eye of his dull world of seeming fact, is often the first to forgive or condone the grim butcheries of theory by which the strong rise.”

— Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser Quote: “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.”

68. “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.”

— Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser Quote: “Only in rare instances and with rare individuals does there seem to be any guiding light from within.”

69. “Only in rare instances and with rare individuals does there seem to be any guiding light from within.”

— Theodore Dreiser

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