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She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
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LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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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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Who was I, really? I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the story she was telling that day. There were so many missing pieces. I was starting to find some of them, working my way upriver, collecting a secret cache of broken memories in a shoebox.
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history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it before it kills you, but he was wrong. you killed it by accident. thinking you were doing something else. shattering, when all you wanted to do was keep it safe.
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Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.
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No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.
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That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.
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They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question?
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she’s not as pretty as you,” I said “But she’s a simpler girl,” my mother whispered.
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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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When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.
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Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.
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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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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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You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.
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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 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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Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.
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She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.
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