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We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
Beauty
Oleanders
Sensual
Sentimental
Strive
Balance

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I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.
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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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One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.
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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.
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here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out
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I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.
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