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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.
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Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.
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I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.
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There is no God, there is only what you want.
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her scruffy innoscense to impregnate with his dreams. reason was seductive, it gave the appearance of truth
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They dream of men with gentle hands, eloquent with tenderness, fingers that brushed along a cheek, that outlined open lips in the lovers' braille. Hands that sculpted sweetness from sullen flesh, that traced breast and ignited hips, opening, kneading. Flesh becomes bread in the heat of those hands, braided and rising.
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like a kid kicked out of class. humiliated and free.
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My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?
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here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out
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In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.
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I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.
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What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?
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The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.
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The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray to that?
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Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say.
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Wasn't that the way it always was? You didn't know, you couldn't tell, you just let it happen... Perhaps they didn't know themselves. Sometimes the line was very fine.
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I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?
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How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention.
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My hatred gives me strength.
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echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.
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