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

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Journalist
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University Teacher
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LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.
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That kind of tenderness couldn't be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then you paid for it the rest of your life. Like the guy chained to a rock, who stole fire. The gods made an eagle eat his liver for all eternity. You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.
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like a kid kicked out of class. humiliated and free.
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Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.
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Dawn tinted the darkness like water ink.
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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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She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.
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This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.
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The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.
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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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It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
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A dependent clause (a sentence fragment set off by commas, dontcha know) helps you explore your story by moving you deeper into the sentence. It allows you to stop and think harder about what you've already written. Often the story you're looking for is inside the sentence. The dependent clause helps you uncover it.
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She should think about her own soul, what she was going to do with this funky tattered pond dank item. Dark and stained, a ruined thing.
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Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.
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What is real is always worth it.
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Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
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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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If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.
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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 was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.
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