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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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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
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LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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Never apologize. Never explain.
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Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.
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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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A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.
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here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out
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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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