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“Good-by, Cutrone!” It was a hoarse, shaky voice from some near-by cell—Clyde could not tell which. “Go to a better world than this.” And then other voices: “Goodby, Cutrone. God keep you— even though you can’t talk English.”

Theodore Dreiser. An American Tragedy . Jovian Press. Kindle Edition.

On the contrary, being a moral if not a physical coward, as his own story seemed to suggest,

Theodore Dreiser. An American Tragedy . Jovian Press. Kindle Edition.

“A case of being betwitched, my poor boy—by beauty, love, wealth, by things that we sometimes think we want very, very much, and cannot ever have—that is what I mean, and that is what much of the love in the world amounts to.”

Theodore Dreiser. An American Tragedy . Jovian Press. Kindle Edition.

“Friends, this thing has happened millions of times in this world of ours, and it will happen millions and millions of times in the days to come. It is not new and it will never be old.

Theodore Dreiser. An American Tragedy . Jovian Press. Kindle Edition.

'And when at last these two were ready to go, he was sorry. For with them near him, planning and plotting in regard to himself, he felt so much safer, stronger, more hopeful, more certain of being free, maybe, at some future date."

Theodore Dreiser. An American Tragedy . Jovian Press. Kindle Edition.