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.
More Quotes from Theodore Dreiser:
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.Theodore Dreiser
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
Theodore Dreiser
The whole earth was brimming sunshine that morning. She tripped along, the clear sky pouring liquid blue into her soul.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
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To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that solaces and delights.
Theodore Dreiser
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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