"Writes have an island, a center of refuge,……" — Wright Morris
"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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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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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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More Anchorage Quotes
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Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of…
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The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few…
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Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers,…
— August Strindberg
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Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long,…
— Walt Whitman
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In political activity . . . men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor…
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to…
— Edith Wharton
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If God's Word is not absolutely and completely true, it is too weak a cable to fix our anchorage and…
— A B Simpson
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I realized both the upper and lower body must be held securely in place with one strap across the chest…
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We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the…
— Jack Adams
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Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in…
— Anne Perry
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At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the…
— Richard E. Byrd
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