"The past is useless. That explains why it…" — Wright Morris
"The past is useless. That explains why it is past."
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13 Quotes by Wright Morris
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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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After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what…
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