Frank Norris Quotes

Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.

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

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

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

Always blame conditions, not men

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

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.

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