For my Mr. Fox
(whoever you are)

Helen Oyeyemi

Stichwörter: love



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[i]We were fighting so very hard and achieving so very little aside from staying alive. BUT THAT’S EVERYTHING, my father wrote to me, when I told him that in a letter.[/i]

Helen Oyeyemi

Stichwörter: living



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Oh, everyone’s got a view, haven’t they? .. Everyone’s got something to say," she’d tell me. ..

Helen Oyeyemi

Stichwörter: point-of-view something-to-say



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So Mr. Pizarsky had been a poet? That was how he’d said it: “I was a poet." As if the poet had died. He was hiding, perhaps.

Helen Oyeyemi

Stichwörter: personalities



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She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.

Helen Oyeyemi

Stichwörter: heroes encouragement



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Sometimes I do what I say I’m going to do, but more often I don’t. It’s a failing. The least of my failings, and the only one I feel up to admitting at the moment.

Helen Oyeyemi

Stichwörter: failings



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And that was what all the expressions felt like— masks. I didn’t believe them. They were too thorough, too nuanced; they were never at odds with his subject matter.

Helen Oyeyemi

Stichwörter: masks fake expressions



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Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.

Helen Oyeyemi

Stichwörter: growing grow things-grow



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