"How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean."

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Source : Theodore Dreiser (2016). “Sister Carrie”, p.10, Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser

#Mean Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Volume Quotes

“If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space.”
“I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.”
“People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.”
“I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK.”
“People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.”
“It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.”
“There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.”
“I turn bullish at the instant my buy stop is hit, and stay bullish until my sell stop is hit.”

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