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Frank Norris Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Always blame conditions, not men

Frank Norris
Men, Blame, Conditions

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

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

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”

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

[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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