"Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy,……" — Theodore Dreiser
"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."
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Theodore Dreiser
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42 Quotes by Theodore Dreiser
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I will kneel and strike my breast, then touch the dust with my forehead; I will, I will. Only do…
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We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of.…
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The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.
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Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.
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We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument,…
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Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this…
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Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and…
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I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter…
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If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to…
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Shakespeare, I come !
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A thought will color a world for us.
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Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of…
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
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Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance…
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