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I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.
Janet Fitch
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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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University Teacher
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California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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Dawn tinted the darkness like water ink.
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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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Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author.
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I wanted to hear what she was saying. I wanted to smell that burnt midnight again, I wanted to feel that wind. It was a secret wanting, like a song I couldn't stop humming, or loving someone I could never have. No matter where I went, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.
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She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I'm so lonely, so desperate. I'll give you whatever you want.
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It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
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We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at 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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purification in fire. public cremation
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My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
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She was not used to being cruel, but he had taught her how.
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Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.
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I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.
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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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Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.
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She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.
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Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.
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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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And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.
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I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine.
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