Wright Morris Quotes

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In the dry places... towns, like weeds, spring up when it rains, dry up when it stops. But in a dry climate the husk of the plant remains. The stranger might find, as if preserved in amber, something of the green life that was once lived there, and the ghosts of men who have gone on to a better place. The withered towns are empty, but not uninhabited.

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

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

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

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

Wright Morris

Wright Morris

Born: January 6, 1910

Died: April 25, 1998 (aged 88)

Bio: Wright Marion Morris was an American novelist, photographer, and essayist. He is known for his portrayals of the people and artifacts of the Great Plains in words and pictures, as well as for experimenting with narrative forms.

Known for:

The Field of Vision (1956)
Plains Song (1980)
The Works of Love (1952)
Ceremony in Lone Tree (1960)
Love Among the Cannibals (1957)

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