Frank Norris famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#World #Wilderness #All Alone
Always blame conditions, not men
-- Frank Norris

#Men #Blame
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
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
-- Frank Norris

#Giving #Truth Is #Immortal
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
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.
-- Frank Norris

#Novelists #Function #Comment
Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: Â the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.
-- Frank Norris

#Cities #Interesting #Would Be
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 #San Francisco #New Orleans
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
[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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