Quotes by : Theodore Dreiser

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

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....

Conservatism -- hard work -- saving one's money -- looking neat and gentlemanly. It was such an Eveless....

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....

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.