Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a single life will clearly and effectively illustrate a period. (from "Vanity, Vanity Saith the Preacher)” — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“Life's little ironies are not always manifest. We hear distant rumbling sounds of its tragedies, but rarely are we permitted to witness… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
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… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“Cowperwood was shocked by the nudity of the Venus which conveyed an atmosphere of European freedom not common to America;” — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that solaces and… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“now. If any habits ever had time to fix upon her, they would have operated here. Habits are peculiar things. They will drive the… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“Here were these two, bandying little phrases, drawing purses, looking at cards, and both unconscious of how inarticulate all their real feelings were. Neither… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
If we are to extract any joy out of our span, we must think and plan and make things better not only for ourselves… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking- chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
