"We make to ourselves pictures of facts. The……" — Wright Morris
"We make to ourselves pictures of facts. The picture is a model of reality"
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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'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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The past is useless. That explains why it is past.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all…
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it…
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike…
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I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first…
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a…
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I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this…
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
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