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Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
Always
Life
Like
Lingering
Meal
Meals
Good

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...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object, the way you'd stare at an animal. She pretended not to notice. To remind them she was a person was too much effort. Objects bore no guilt.
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Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
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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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she’s not as pretty as you,” I said “But she’s a simpler girl,” my mother whispered.
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I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.
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It's not that he was going nowhere, it's that he'd already arrived.
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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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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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