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When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.
Janet Fitch
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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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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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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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Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.
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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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Dawn tinted the darkness like water ink.
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What is real is always worth it.
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You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know.
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We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.
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We have no home, she told me. I am your home.
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Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say.
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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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How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?
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I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?
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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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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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My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?
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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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I emitted some civetlike female stink, a distinct perfume of sexual wanting, that he had followed to find me here in the dark.
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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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This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.
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