Wright Morris Quotes
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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 thin or out, something new wears in. The handle on the pump, the crank on the churn, the dipper floating in the bucket, the latch on the screen, the door on the privy, the fender on the stove, the knees of the pants and the seat of the chair, the handle of the brush and the lid to the pot exist in time but outside taste; they wear in more than they wear out. It can't be helped. It's neither good nor bad. It's the nature of life.
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However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.
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The past is useless. That explains why it is past.
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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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In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.
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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 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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The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.
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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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When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.