10 ordspråk av Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser föddes den
August 27th 1871 och dog den 28 December
1945 - who was the outstanding American practitioner of naturalism.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. [Honors: At his funeral, Charlie Chaplin read Dreiser's poem,] The Road I Came. ... American writing before and after his time differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin. He was a man of large originality, of profound feeling and of unshakable courage. All of us who write are better off because he lived, worked and hoped.
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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
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Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave
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I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
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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 circumstance. (attributed)
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In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance
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Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.
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Nothing is proved, all is permitted.
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Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason
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Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
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