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What is real is always worth it.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
Always
Worth
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How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention.
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It's not that he was going nowhere, it's that he'd already arrived.
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Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.
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Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.
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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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Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.
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Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway.
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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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If sinners where so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?
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A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.
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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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In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.
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