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When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.

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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
Smell
Fully
Read
Another
Place
Feel
Feels
Things
Transported

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She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.
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No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.
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Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.
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I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.
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Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.
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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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Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.
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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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without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.
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Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway.
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At every moment, each instrument knew what to play. Its little bit. But none could see the whole thing like this, all at once, only its own part. Just like life. Each person was like a line of music, but nobody knew what the symphony sounded like. Only the conductor had the whole score.
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What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.
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