Frank Norris Quotes
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Always blame conditions, not men
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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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The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.
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