American Letters: Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

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“Life seems to prove but one thing to me, and that is that the various statements concerning right, truth, justice, mercy are palaver merely, an earnest and necessitous attempt, perhaps, at balance and equation where all things are so very much unbalanced, paradoxical and contradictory—the small-change names for a thing or things of which we have not yet caught the meaning. History teaches me little save that nothing is really dependable or assured, but all inexplicable and all shot through with a great desire on the part of many to do or say something by which they may escape the unutterable confusion of time and the feebleness of earthly memory (1920: 17)”

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Board, Editorial (2024) "American Letters: Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)," The International Journal of Ecopsychology (IJE): Vol. 9: Iss. 1, Article 11.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/ije/vol9/iss1/11