"There was no way to grasp the reality……" — Paula Fox
"There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past."
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22 Quotes by Paula Fox
Paula Fox has 22 quotes on this site.
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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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More Air Quotes
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the…
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
— Lester Bangs
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
— Stanley Baldwin
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
— Drew Barrymore
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
— Hilaire Belloc
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