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Top 20 Wright Morris Quotes (2025 Update)

Wright Morris Quote: “In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.”

1. “In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.”

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Wright Morris Quote: “When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.”

2. “When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.”

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Wright Morris Quote: “The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.”

3. “The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.”

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Wright Morris Quote: “The past is useless. That explains why it is past.”

4. “The past is useless. That explains why it is past.”

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Wright Morris Quote: “The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.”

5. “The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.”

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Wright Morris Quote: “Cats don’t belong to people. They belong to places.”

6. “Cats don’t belong to people. They belong to places.”

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Wright Morris Quote: “We’re in the world of communications more and more, tough we’re in communication less and less.”

7. “We’re in the world of communications more and more, tough we’re in communication less and less.”

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Wright Morris Quote: “Images proliferate. Am I wrong in being reminded of printing money in a period of wild inflation? Do we know what we are doing? Are we able to evaluate what we have done?”

8. “Images proliferate. Am I wrong in being reminded of printing money in a period of wild inflation? Do we know what we are doing? Are we able to evaluate what we have done?”

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Wright Morris Quote: “The camera eye is the one in the middle of our forehead, combining how we see with what there is to be seen.”

9. “The camera eye is the one in the middle of our forehead, combining how we see with what there is to be seen.”

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Wright Morris Quote: “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.”

10. “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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Wright Morris Quote: “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.”

11. “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 Quote: “The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of life has given him a subject, he is spared the youthful writer’s self-torment and soul-searching.”

12. “The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of life has given him a subject, he is spared the youthful writer’s self-torment and soul-searching.”

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Wright Morris Quote: “Everyone in California is from somewhere else.”

13. “Everyone in California is from somewhere else.”

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Wright Morris Quote: “We make to ourselves pictures of facts. The picture is a model of reality.”

14. “We make to ourselves pictures of facts. The picture is a model of reality.”

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Wright Morris Quote: “The vast number of photographers, feeding on anything visible, overgraze the landscape the way cattle overgraze their pasture.”

15. “The vast number of photographers, feeding on anything visible, overgraze the landscape the way cattle overgraze their pasture.”

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Wright Morris Quote: “Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind’s anchorage, the soul’s Great Good Place.”

16. “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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Wright Morris Quote: “I prefer a taken to a made photograph.”

17. “I prefer a taken to a made photograph.”

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Wright Morris Quote: “As the style of Faulkner grew out of his rage – out of the impotence of his rage – the style of Hemingway grew out of the depth andnuance of his disenchantment.”

18. “As the style of Faulkner grew out of his rage – out of the impotence of his rage – the style of Hemingway grew out of the depth andnuance of his disenchantment.”

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Wright Morris Quote: “They all liked California, but they thought the people were cold.”

19. “They all liked California, but they thought the people were cold.”

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Wright Morris Quote: “Pretty good-looking women, in the main, thanks to the California sun.”

20. “Pretty good-looking women, in the main, thanks to the California sun.”

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