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A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.

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
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Everyone
Dream
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We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.
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A cliché is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.
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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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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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Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.
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I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the paint on new cars and beat up well-tended children. It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
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It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
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I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.
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I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.
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We have no home, she told me. I am your home.
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I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.
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One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.
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Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
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When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.
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What is real is always worth it.
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Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.
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My hatred gives me strength.
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He hated crowds, never liked punk. He couldn't handle the nakedness of the rage -his own so sophisticated and finely tuned. He could never see the similarity between himself and Donnie Draino screaming into a mic.
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And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.
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