Frank Norris Quotes

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

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#2. 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.

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#3. It belonged to the changeless order of things---the man desiring the woman only for what she withholds; the woman worshipping the man for that which she yields up to him. With each concession gained the man's desire cools; with every surrender made the woman's adoration increases...

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#4. 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.

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#5. [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.

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

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

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

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#9. 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.

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

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#11. Always blame conditions, not men

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#12. The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Frank Norris