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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!

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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LA
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Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object, the way you'd stare at an animal. She pretended not to notice. To remind them she was a person was too much effort. Objects bore no guilt.
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His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral Sea. We were like cobras following a reed flute.
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It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.
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Inside every human being, there is unlimited time and space.
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Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.
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He hated crowds, never liked punk. He couldn't handle the nakedness of the rage -his own so sophisticated and finely tuned. He could never see the similarity between himself and Donnie Draino screaming into a mic.
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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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The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.
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Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.
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I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.
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My hatred gives me strength.
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echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.
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We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.
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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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She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.
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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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Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.
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You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.
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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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She was not used to being cruel, but he had taught her how.
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