Frank Norris Quotes

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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 Norris

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

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

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

Frank Norris

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

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

Frank Norris

Frank Norris

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Born: March 5, 1870

Died: October 25, 1902 (aged 32)

Bio: Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. was an American journalist and sometime novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague, The Octopus: A Story of California, and The Pit.

Known for:

McTeague (1899)
The Octopus: A Story of California (1901)
The Pit
Vandover and the Brute

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