Paula Fox Quotes

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• When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

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  Children, Book, Reading

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• A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

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  Ends, Bigger, Novel

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• To be human is to be in a story.

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  Stories, Humans

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• The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

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  Conscious, Doing Good, Minutes

  "A qualified optimist" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2003.

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• Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.

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  Iron, Definitions, Break

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• Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.

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  Teacher, Heart, Inspire

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• Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge between the provincialism of the self and the great world.

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  Reality, Self, Bridges

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.

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  Effort, Labels, Paper

  Paula Fox (2011). “News from the World: Stories and Essays”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

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  Life Is, Used

  Paula Fox (2016). “Western Wind”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

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  Lying, Trying, Stories

  Paula Fox (2011). “A Servant's Tale: A Novel”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.

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  Self Esteem, Goldfish, Bowls

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• The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one-day will be. So please, tell the people you love and care for that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.

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  People, Special, Important

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• I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.

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  Writing, Years, Class

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• we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail the new as absolute truth - until the next new comes along.

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  Country, Ideas, Next

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• People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

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  People, Retrospect, Consciousness

  Paula Fox (2011). “The God of Nightmares”, p.79, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It was hard to reassure grown-ups when you weren't certain yourself what you were feeling and thinking—when thoughts dissolved before you could name them.

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  Thinking, Names, Feelings

  Paula Fox (2016). “The Village by the Sea”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• Freedom is a public library.

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  Library, Public Library

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• Labels not only free us from the obligation to think creatively; they numb our sensibilities, our power to feel. During the Vietnam War, the phrase body count entered our vocabulary. It is an ambiguous phrase, inorganic, even faintly sporty. It distanced us from the painful reality of corpses, of dead, mutilated people.

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  War, Reality, Thinking

  Paula Fox (2011). “News from the World: Stories and Essays”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When there's a terrible murder people who are interviewed say, 'This has always been a quiet neighborhood.' That is so dumb and uninformed! The earth is not a quiet neighborhood. There isn't anyplace that's a quiet neighborhood. People are asking themselves how to stay neat in the cyclone.

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  People, Dumb, Earth

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• I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.

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  Purpose, Combination, Cooks

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• Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

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  Inspirational, Life, Educational

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• You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

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  Stills, Happenings, Ifs

  Paula Fox (2016). “The Slave Dancer”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.

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  Memories, Childhood, Remember

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• Words are nets through which all truth escapes.

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  Truth

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• When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path.

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  Motivational, Encouragement, Stories

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