87 Quotes by Theodore Dreiser

I was in Chicago before I came here, but I didn’t do so very much dancing. I had to work.” He was thinking how such girls as she had everything, as contrasted with girls like Roberta, who had nothing. And yet, as he now felt in this instance, he liked Roberta better. She was sweeter and warmer and kinder – not so cold.

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 circustance.

As they sang, this nondescript and indifferent street audience gazed, held by the peculiarity of such an unimportant-looking family publicly raising its collective voice against the vast skepticism and apathy of life.

Conservatism – hard work – saving one’s money – looking neat and gentlemanly. It was such an Eveless paradise, that.

And they were always testifying as to how God or Christ or Divine Grace had rescued them from this or that predicament – never how they had rescued any one else. And.

She merely beamed a fatty beam. She was almost ponderous, and pink, with a tendency to a double chin.