"After many months of writing, it occured to……" — Wright Morris
"After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was attempting to capture in words. I bought a Rolleiflex camera and began to take pictures of objects or structures that were used and abused by human hands"
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Wright Morris
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13 Quotes by Wright Morris
Wright Morris has 13 quotes on this site.
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Cats don't belong to people. They belong to places.
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Writing has made me rich-not in money but in a couple hundred characters out there, whose pursuits and anguish and…
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Everyone in California is from somewhere else.
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The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have…
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There's little to see, but things leave an impression. It's a matter of time and repetition. As something old wears…
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The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he…
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The man who walks alone is soon trailed by the F.B.I.
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When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.
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We make to ourselves pictures of facts. The picture is a model of reality
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We're in the world of communications more and more, tough we're in communication less and less.
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Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.
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The past is useless. That explains why it is past.
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More Abused Quotes
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it…
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The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together,…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
— H.G. Wells
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If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People…
— Helen Prejean
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Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused…
— Dianne Feinstein
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When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a…
— James A. Baldwin
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This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer…
— Euripides
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When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights,…
— William J. Clinton
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Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine…
— Martin Luther
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Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has…
— Mark Twain
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Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused…
— Tim Field
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When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I…
— William J. Clinton
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