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List of Paula Fox Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 40 inspiring quotes by Paula Fox.

About Paula Fox

  • Born: April 22, 1923
  • Died: March 1, 2017
  • Occupation: Writer
    • Words are nets through which all truth escapes.
    Truth
    And what movies we saw! all the actors and actresses whose photographs i collected, with their look of eternity! their radiance, their eyes, their faces, their voices, the suavity of their movements! their clothes! even in prison movies, the stars shone in their prison clothes as if tailors had accompanied them in their downfall.
    Movie Stars Eye
    The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.
    Truth People Stories
    Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble.
    Mystery
    You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.
    Stills Happenings Ifs
    My life was incoherent to me. i felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth.
    Broken Teeth Felt
    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.
    Past Reality Air
    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 Paris Glasses
    My first job was working in a dress shop in los angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.
    Jobs Dresses Firsts
    I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.
    Purpose Combination Cooks
    If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. but with a dog - you did something cheap to it when you were sure no one was looking, and it was as though you had done it in front of a mirror.
    Dog Mirrors Done
    I don't know what makes a writer's voice. it's dozens of things. there are people who write who don't have it. they're tone-deaf, even though they're very fluent. it's an ability, like anything else, being a doctor or a veterinarian, or a musician.
    Writing Doctors Voice
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