Quotes by Paula Fox

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.

Air

Past

Reality

There’s a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it’s much more developed than in others. It’s a different balance which makes us all different.

Balance

Different

People

To be human is to be in a story.

Humans

Stories

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.

Country

Ideas

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.

Encouragement

Motivational

Stories

When I had a few francs, I spent them at a café on the Place de Longchamps, a block or so from my pension, where I could order a glass of Beaujolais and a plate of string beans in vinaigrette for the equivalent of fifteen cents.

Block

Glasses

Paris

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.

Dumb

Earth

People

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.

Book

Children

Reading

Words are nets through which all truth escapes.

Truth

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

Happenings

Ifs

Stills

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Busy

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Cooks

Country

Definitions

Different

Doctors

Dog

Doing Good

Done

Dresses

Dumb

Earth

Educational

Effort

Encouragement

Ends

Eye

Father

Feelings

Felt

Firsts

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Goldfish

Happenings

Heart

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Ifs

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Quotes by Paula Fox

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.

There’s a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it’s much more developed than in others. It’s a different balance which makes us all different.

To be human is to be in a story.

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.

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.

When I had a few francs, I spent them at a café on the Place de Longchamps, a block or so from my pension, where I could order a glass of Beaujolais and a plate of string beans in vinaigrette for the equivalent of fifteen cents.

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.

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.

Words are nets through which all truth escapes.

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

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