Frank Norris quotes
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“No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.”
-- Frank NorrisSource : Frank Norris (2012). “McTeague”, p.92, Penguin
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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 NorrisSource : Frank Norris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Frank Norris (Illustrated)”, p.2583, Delphi Classics
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“Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.”
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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 NorrisSource : Frank Norris (1899). “Blix. Moran of the Lady Letty. Essays on authorship”
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“The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.”
-- Frank NorrisSource : Frank Norris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Frank Norris (Illustrated)”, p.2332, Delphi Classics
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“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 NorrisSource : Frank Norris, Donald Pizer (1986). “Novels and Essays”, p.1112, Library of America
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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 NorrisSource : Frank Norris, Joseph R. McElrath, Douglas K. Burgess (1996). “The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris, 1896-1898”, American Philosophical Society
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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 NorrisSource : Frank Norris (2008). “The Octopus”, p.838, Book Jungle
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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
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