"Writing has made me rich-not in money but……" — Wright Morris
"Writing has made me rich-not in money but in a couple hundred characters out there, whose pursuits and anguish and triumphs I've shared. I am unspeakably grateful at the life I have come to lead."
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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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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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The past is useless. That explains why it is past.
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More Anguish Quotes
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
— Balthus
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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity,…
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
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There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
— Roger Caras
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The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists,…
— Nick Cave
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
— Leonard Cohen
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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what…
— Aberjhani
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
— Aldous Huxley
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At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all…
— Hermann Hesse
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Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night,…
— Morrie Schwartz
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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