Theodore Dreiser
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Suggested Socionics type: ESI (FiSe, ISFj)
Brief Biography
Personal Statements
“Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.”
― Theodore Dreiser
“People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.”
― Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
“The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.”
― Theodore Dreiser
“The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant… the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak - and so very, very many.”
― Theodore Dreiser
“Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak – none... Such is the tragedy of desire.”
― Theodore Dreiser
“Only in rare instances and with rare individuals does there seem to be any guiding light from within.”
― Theodore Dreiser, Jennie Gerhardt
“What matter it if a man gaineth the whole world and loseth his own soul?”
― Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy
“Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.”
― Theodore Dreiser
“He paused, wishing to embrace her, but feeling for the moment that he should not. Then, reaching into a waistcoat pocket, he took from it a thin gold locket, the size of a silver dollar, which he opened and handed to her. One interior face of it was lined with a photograph of Berenice as a girl of twelve, thin, delicate, supercilious, self-contained, distant, as she was to this hour.”
― Theodore Dreiser
About
Type Arguments
Alternative Typings
Alternative suggested socionics types: LSE
Typings at SSS database: Theodore Dreiser
Suggested enneagram variants: 1w9, soc.