Frank Norris Quotes

• Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

  Frank Norris

  Truth, Giving, Prussia

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• Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.

  Frank Norris

  Evil, Perfect, Judging

  Frank Norris (2008). “The Octopus”, p.838, Book Jungle

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• I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.

  Frank Norris

  Fashion, Pennies, Hats

  Frank Norris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Frank Norris (Illustrated)”, p.2583, Delphi Classics

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• No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.

  Frank Norris

  World, Wilderness, All Alone

  Frank Norris (2012). “McTeague”, p.92, Penguin

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• Always blame conditions, not men

  Frank Norris

  Men, Blame, Conditions

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• Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United States that are 'story cities'- New York, of course, New Orleans, and, best of the lot, San Francisco.

  Frank Norris

  New York, Nashville, Cities

  Frank Norris, Joseph R. McElrath, Douglas K. Burgess (1996). “The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris, 1896-1898”, American Philosophical Society

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• The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

  Frank Norris

  Novelists, Function, Comment

  Frank Norris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Frank Norris (Illustrated)”, p.2332, Delphi Classics

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• No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

  Frank Norris

  Art, People, Generations

  Frank Norris (1899). “Blix. Moran of the Lady Letty. Essays on authorship”

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• Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.

  Frank Norris

  Cities, Interesting, Would Be

  Frank Norris, Donald Pizer (1986). “Novels and Essays”, p.1112, Library of America

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• [The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World of Working Men, crude of speech, swift of action, strong of passion, straight to the heart of a new life.

  Frank Norris

  Strong, Passion, Heart

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