Quotes by : Theodore Dreiser

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended. When each individual....

When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.

He paused, wishing to embrace her, but feeling for the moment that he should not. Then, reaching into....

In many cases where one is content to lead a secluded life it is not necessary to say much of one's past,....

When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes....

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.  Little audible links, they are, chaining together....

Carrie felt this as a personal reproof. She read "Dora Thorne," or had a great deal in the past. It seemed....

Many individuals are so constituted that their only thought is to obtain pleasure and shun responsibility.....

The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense,....

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they....