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It's not that he was going nowhere, it's that he'd already arrived.

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
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LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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Nowhere
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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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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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A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.
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I'm incredibly restless. I read a lot of poetry. I also find myself reading the first 20 pages of everything, looking for something. And you know what? I'm usually looking for the book I'm writing. And it's not out there!
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How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.
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To make films, you have to have boundless energy you have to work and play with others really, really well, and I'm really a more contemplative kind of person. I like to sit at home and think, a lot.
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Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway.
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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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How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?
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Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.
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You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.
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One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.
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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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I imagined my soul taking in these words like silicated water in the Petrified Forest, turning my wood to patterned agate. I liked it when my mother shaped me this way. I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.
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I felt suddenly cruel, like I´d told dmall children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their Mom sneaking into their room after they went to bed.
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What is real is always worth it.
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echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.
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I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
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