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And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
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LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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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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Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.
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She was a beautiful woman dragging a crippled foot and I was that foot. I was bricks sewn into the hem of her clothes, I was a steel dress
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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 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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I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.
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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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The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.
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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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Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.
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How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.
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I'm incredibly restless. I read a lot of poetry. I also find myself reading the first 20 pages of everything, looking for something. And you know what? I'm usually looking for the book I'm writing. And it's not out there!
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I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?
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If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.
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without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.
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The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.
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Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.
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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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I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.
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The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.
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