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We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
Balance
Beauty
Oleanders
Sensual
Sentimental
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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 felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.
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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 couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
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And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty seperate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door.
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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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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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They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question?
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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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I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.
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