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Famous Wright Morris Quotes
“However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.”
“In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.”
“[We] make images to see clearly: then we see clearly what we have made.”
“The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.”
“The past is useless. That explains why it is past.”
“Cats don't belong to people. They belong to places.”
“Everyone in California is from somewhere else.”
“The man who walks alone is soon trailed by the F.B.I.”
“When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.”
“We make to ourselves pictures of facts. The picture is a model of reality”
“We're in the world of communications more and more, tough we're in communication less and less.”