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A cliché is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.
Janet Fitch
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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
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She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.
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Wasn't that the way it always was? You didn't know, you couldn't tell, you just let it happen... Perhaps they didn't know themselves. Sometimes the line was very fine.
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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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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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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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A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.
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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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Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say.
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I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked.
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There is no God, there is only what you want.
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To make films, you have to have boundless energy you have to work and play with others really, really well, and I'm really a more contemplative kind of person. I like to sit at home and think, a lot.
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The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.
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I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a reindeer, ships of Swedish maple.
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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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One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.
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Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.
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