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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: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
Read
Another
Place
Feel
Feels
Things
Transported
Smell
Fully

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She should think about her own soul, what she was going to do with this funky tattered pond dank item. Dark and stained, a ruined thing.
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And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty seperate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door.
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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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The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.
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her scruffy innoscense to impregnate with his dreams. reason was seductive, it gave the appearance of truth
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How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.
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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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Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.
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No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.
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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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She was not used to being cruel, but he had taught her how.
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I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.
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It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
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Never apologize. Never explain.
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purification in fire. public cremation
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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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I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.
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I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the paint on new cars and beat up well-tended children. It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
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