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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.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Journalist
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Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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A person didn’t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn’t help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I’d take it
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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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She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.
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You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.
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Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.
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Never apologize. Never explain.
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We have no home, she told me. I am your home.
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she’s not as pretty as you,” I said “But she’s a simpler girl,” my mother whispered.
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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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And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.
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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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Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.
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My hatred gives me strength.
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Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author.
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I could hear the icy winds of Sweden, but he didn't seem to feel the chill.
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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.
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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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Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.
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There is no God, there is only what you want.
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