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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.
Janet Fitch
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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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University Teacher
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California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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They dream of men with gentle hands, eloquent with tenderness, fingers that brushed along a cheek, that outlined open lips in the lovers' braille. Hands that sculpted sweetness from sullen flesh, that traced breast and ignited hips, opening, kneading. Flesh becomes bread in the heat of those hands, braided and rising.
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She kissed me on the mouth. Her mouth tasted like iced coffee and cardamom, and I was overwhelmed by the taste, her hot skin and the smell of unwashed hair. I was confused, but not unwilling. I would have let her do anything to me.
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Your protagonist is your reader’s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you’re creating. They don’t have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering.
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A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.
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This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.
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Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.
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Let me tell you a few things about regret...There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air in between, or each link separately as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself?
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She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.
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Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.
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It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
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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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She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.
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A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.
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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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Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.
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I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.
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