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Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
Cherish
Burn
Artist
Past
Anything
Hoard
Phoenix
Burns
Emerge

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Aquamarines grew with emeralds, Claire told me. But emeralds were fragile and always broke into smaller pieces, while aquamarines were stronger, grew in huge crystals without any trouble, so they weren't worth as much. It was the emerald that didn't break that was the really valuable thing.
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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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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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What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.
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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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There is no God, there is only what you want.
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Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.
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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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How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention.
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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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I wanted to hear what she was saying. I wanted to smell that burnt midnight again, I wanted to feel that wind. It was a secret wanting, like a song I couldn't stop humming, or loving someone I could never have. No matter where I went, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.
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I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.
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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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Dawn tinted the darkness like water ink.
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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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And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.
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It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.
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