34 Quotes About Mr-fox
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I almost forgot to mention another fox I know of—a very wicked fox indeed. But you are tired of hearing about foxes now, so I won't go on.
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Have you forgotten about our fox?The one who now had an eye for beauty, and an inclination to set it apart from other things . . .
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I needed words, lots of words to think about while I was going about the rest of the day. And I didn't want anything affected. I wanted nothing to do with those Romance languages. I wanted clipped words, full of common sense. Thoughts to wear beneath my thoughts. Allow, express, oath, vow, dismay, matter, splash, mollify. I liked those words. I liked saying them. I still do.
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I was so jealous it burned, and I knew I had to let it alone or I'd break something inside me.
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My mother exaggerates as often as she can. I'm sure she would like nothing more than to be part of a Greek tragedy. She wouldn't even want a large part, she'd be perfectly content with a chorus role, warning that fate is coming to make havoc of all things.
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Mr. Fox didn't come, he didn't come, he didn't.
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Miss Foxe occasionally wondered if she spent her life approaching invisibility and had finally arrived at it.
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If love diminishes, it quickly fails and rarely revives.
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I looked inside my typewriter. There's a city in there. Black and grey columns and no inhabitants.
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