"It was hard to reassure grown-ups when you……" — Paula Fox
"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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22 Quotes by Paula Fox
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A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.
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Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.
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The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we…
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I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.
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I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.
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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…
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I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.
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In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself…
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My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.
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I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have…
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I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you…
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I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely…
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