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That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.
Janet Fitch
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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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University Teacher
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California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.
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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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If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.
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Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.
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Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.
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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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