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Paula Fox was an American writer known for her delicate emotional descriptions and profound psychological insights. Her works often focus on female characters and their personal growth, as well as family relationships and identity. Fox's writing career spanned half a century, and her works have won numerous literary awards.

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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.”

People World Wells Self Reality Imagination Awareness Bridges Provincialism

Author:Paula Fox

“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.”

People Thinking Feels War Body Reality Language Painful Obligation Labels Phrases Vietnam Sensibility Vocabulary Corpses Vietnam War Numb Ambiguous

Book:News from the World: Stories and Essays

Source: News from the World: Stories and Essays

“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.”

People Earth Terrible Quiet Murder Asking Dumb Neighborhood Neat Uninformed Cyclones

Author:Paula Fox

“The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.”

People Stories Truth Interrupting

Book:The Slave Dancer

Source: The Slave Dancer

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

People Has Beens Seems Consciousness Stealing Retrospect

Book:The God of Nightmares

Source: The God of Nightmares

“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.”

People Knows Important Ends Care Forget Special Please One Day Late Too Late Thick Density Love And Care

Author:Paula Fox

“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.”

People Knows Writing Voice Ability Musician Doctors Tone Dozen Deaf Fluent Veterinarian Writer's Voice

Author:Paula Fox

“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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Author:Paula Fox

“I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.”

People Kind Certain Known Lovely Impulse Destructive Brutes Bad People

Author:Paula Fox

“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.”

People Different Certain Amount Balance Tyranny

Author:Paula Fox

About the Author

Born: April 22, 1923
Died: March 1, 2017
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 55

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