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One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.
Janet Fitch
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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.
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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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She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I'm so lonely, so desperate. I'll give you whatever you want.
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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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To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful.
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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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A person didn’t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn’t help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I’d take it
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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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My hatred gives me strength.
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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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She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.
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here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out
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history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it before it kills you, but he was wrong. you killed it by accident. thinking you were doing something else. shattering, when all you wanted to do was keep it safe.
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You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its long stem with his eyes lowered. Someone whose fingers are a poem.
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Dawn tinted the darkness like water ink.
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But I knew one more thing. That people w ho denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.
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Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.
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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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I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.
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