Theodore Dreiser

Quotes

• “Oh, the moon is fair tonight along the Wabash,From the fields there comes the breath of new-mown hay;Through the sycamores the candle lights are gleamingOn the banks of the Wabash, far away.”
• “I acknowledge the Furies. I believe in them. I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings.”
• “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.”
• “Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.”
• “Liberalism, in the case of the Jew, means internationalism. If you listen to Jews discuss Jews, you will find they are money-minded, very sharp in practice. The Jews lack the fine integrity which at last is endorsed, and to a certain degree followed, by lawyers of other nationalities. The Jew has been in Germany for a thousand years, and he is still a Jew. He has been in America for all of 200 years, and he has not faded into a pure American by any means — and he will not.”
• “A man, a real man, must never be an agent, a tool, or a gambler—acting for himself or for others—he must employ such. A real man—a financier—was never a tool. He used tools. He created. He led.”

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