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here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out

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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
Carry
Dark
Change
World

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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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The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.
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I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked.
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What happened to a dream without a dreamer?
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I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.
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The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray to that?
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They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question?
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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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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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Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins.
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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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Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.
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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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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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What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?
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Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.
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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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Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.
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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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echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.
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