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Frank Norris Quotes

Frank Norris quotes

American Novelist March 5, 1870 – October 25, 1902

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Frank Norris quote: "The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to..."
The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Frank Norris
Frank Norris quote: "The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he..."
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it. Frank Norris
Wait till you see-at the same time that your family is dying for lack of bread-a hundred thousand acres of wheat-millions of bushels of food-grabbed and gobbled by the Railroad Trust, and then talk of moderation. That talk is just what the Trust wants to hear. It ain't frightened of that. There's one thing only it does listen to, one things it is frightened of-the people with dynamite in their hands,-six inches of plugged gaspipe. That talks. Frank Norris
Frank Norris quote: "Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a..."
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time. Frank Norris
Frank Norris quote: "No art that is not in the end understood by the People can..."
No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation. Frank Norris
The eternal raison d'etre of America is in its being the "sweet land of liberty". Should a land so dreamed into existence, so degenerate through material prosperity as to become what its European critics, with too much justice, have scornfully renamed it the "Land of the Dollar" - such a development will be one of the sorriest conclusions of history, and the most colossal disillusionment that has ever happened to mankind. 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
Frank Norris quote: "Always blame conditions, not men"
Always blame conditions, not men Frank Norris

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