Frank Norris Quotes

#1. With iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel, its dignified intonations of our young nation's sweat and tears evocative of the indelible storytelling of Dos Passos, Frank Norris, and Upton Sinclair.

Bob Shacochis

#2. My properties are very good income-producing buildings, so I will have a very good stream of profit even if I can't sell.

Harry Triguboff

#3. To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!

J. Frank Norris

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

Frank Norris

#5. Always blame conditions, not men

Frank Norris

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

Frank Norris

#7. And this,' Ivan said to the children gathered around, 'is who we are, and this is what we do. Our family serves the Lord
no matter what comes
and when He answers our prayers, no matter how he answers them
we give him praise.

Serena B. Miller

#8. I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.

Halsey

#9. Women won't have total equality until men can get pregnant.

Diana Palmer

#10. 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

#11. Weightless inside a gem, her heart unchained like a pardoned prisoner.

Bibiana Krall

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

Frank Norris

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

Frank Norris

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

Frank Norris

#15. But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.

Jim Fowler

#16. [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

#17. 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

#18. 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...

Frank Norris

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. If you're going to live here, staying civil is as much a duty as sitting the steps or washing dishes. Now, while I bask in the glow of another moral sermon delivered with the precision of a master fencer, hold your applause and let's get back to last night.

Scott Lynch

#22. I might play a lot of dramatic roles, but I'm really sort of silly.

Leighton Meester