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A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.

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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
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LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.
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It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.
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The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.
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But I knew one more thing. That people w ho denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.
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I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a reindeer, ships of Swedish maple.
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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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Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.
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The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.
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Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
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This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.
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Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.
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Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.
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Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.
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Inside every human being, there is unlimited time and space.
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When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end.
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Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.
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There is no God, there is only what you want.
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Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in an old fashioned gun. Then it exploded in your face on a November day in the rain.
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My hatred gives me strength.
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