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Theodore Dreiser Novelist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Aug 27, 1871
  • Died: Dec 28, 1945

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Dreiser's best known novels include Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

love & power

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

art

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

wisdom