Art Quote by Frank Norris

“No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.” quote by Frank Norris — Download Open image

“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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“If I were to name the one crying evil of American life, Mr. Derrick, it would be the indifference of the better people to public affairs. It is so in all our great centres. There are other great trusts, God knows, in the United States besides our own dear P. and S.W. Railroad. Every state has its own grievance. If…

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“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…

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“Believe this, young man," exclaimed Shelgrim, layinga thick powerful forefinger on the table to emphasize his words, "try to believe this - to begin with - that railroads build themselves . Where there is a demand sooner or later there will be a supply. Mr. Derrick, does he grow his wheat? The Wheat grows itself. What does he count for?…

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“A literature that cannot be vulgarized is no literature at all and will perish.”

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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…

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Always blame conditions, not men

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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…

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

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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…

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“Goo'-by, ole Bill, by-by. There you go, an' the signal o' distress roun' you, H. B. 'I'm in need of assistance.' Lord, here comes…

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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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“It belonged to the changeless order of things---the man desiring the woman only for what she withholds; the woman worshipping the man for that…

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