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Wright Morris quotes: The past is useless. That explains why it is past.

The past is useless. That explains why it is past.

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

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

Wright Morris quotes: I prefer a taken to a made photograph.

I prefer a taken to a made photograph.

Wright Morris quotes: However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

Wright Morris quotes: Everyone in California is from somewhere else.

Everyone in California is from somewhere else.

Wright Morris quotes: [We] make images to see clearly: then we see clearly what we have made.

[We] make images to see clearly: then we see clearly what we have made.

Wright Morris quotes: When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.

When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.

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

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

Wright Morris quotes: Cats don't belong to people. They belong to places.

Cats don't belong to people. They belong to places.

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

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

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

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

Wright Morris quotes: We're in the world of communications more and more, tough we're in communication less and less.

We're in the world of communications more and more, tough we're in communication less and less.

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

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

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

Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.

Wright Morris quotes: The man who walks alone is soon trailed by the F.B.I.

The man who walks alone is soon trailed by the F.B.I.