"To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that solaces and delights."

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Source : Theodore Dreiser (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Theodore Dreiser (Illustrated)”, p.325, Delphi Classics

Theodore Dreiser

#Territory Quotes #Next Quotes #Delight Quotes

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
“May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die, fatly baffled in the sun.”
“There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.”
“A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.”
“What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.”

Source : Jean Gebser (1985). “The Ever-Present Origin”
“Think of your husband as a lover from a previous life, and wonder what you did to deserve him.”
“Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.”

Source : William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.229
“Trials are the soil in which faith flourishes.”

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