Mrs. Van Hopper: Most girls would give their eyes for a chance to see Monte. Maxim de Winter: Wouldn't that rather defeat the... purpose?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The nearest analogy to Dreiser's "personal realism" is to be found in the painter Edward Hopper, who shares Dreiser's passion for ...transcendent writers, for images of trains and roads. Despite his similar choice of "ordinary" subjects, Hopper has written that his aim "has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature." ... One feels in the awkwardness, the dreaming stillness of Hopper's figures, the same struggle to express the ultimate confrontation of men and things that one does in Dreiser's reverent descriptions of saloons, street-cars, trains, hotels, offices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into... which we toss our integral tots for processing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the place where all the aspirations of the Western World meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction... of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Maxim de Winter: Tell me, is Mrs. Van Hopper a friend of yours or just a relation? Mrs. de Winter: No, she's my employer. I'm... what's known as a paid companion. Maxim de Winter: I didn't know that companionship could be bought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally, the stuttering, blundering... clod-hopper that I am. Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag and exaggeration. Not that I do not stand on all that I have written,--but what am I to the truth I feebly utter?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I remember when I was younger, there was a well-known writer who used to dart down the back way whenever saw me coming. I suppose ...he was in love with me and wasn't quite sure of himself. Well, c'est la vie!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »