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I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.

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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
Swimming
Fish
Catch
Fishes

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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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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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Death like a lover, caressing him, promising him peace, running its fingers through his hair, its tongue in his ear. She put her own two fingers in her mouth. Im so sorry. And pulled the trigger
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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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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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her scruffy innoscense to impregnate with his dreams. reason was seductive, it gave the appearance of truth
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We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.
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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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She was not used to being cruel, but he had taught her how.
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Let me tell you a few things about regret...There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air in between, or each link separately as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself?
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One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.
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Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.
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It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.
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purification in fire. public cremation
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Inside every human being, there is unlimited time and space.
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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 couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
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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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Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.
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