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We have no home, she told me. I am your home.

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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What is real is always worth it.
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To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful.
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I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked.
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My hatred gives me strength.
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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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Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.
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What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?
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Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.
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A cliche 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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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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They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question?
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I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean't.
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here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out
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We recived our colouring from the Norsemen,hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees.We are the ones who sacked Rome.Fear only feeble old age and death in bed.Don't forget who you are.
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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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Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say.
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purification in fire. public cremation
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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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