"People in general attach too much importance to……" — Theodore Dreiser
"People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens."
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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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