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I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
Optimist
Depressed
Times
Many
Life

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I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.
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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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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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A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.
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It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
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without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.
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I wanted to hear what she was saying. I wanted to smell that burnt midnight again, I wanted to feel that wind. It was a secret wanting, like a song I couldn't stop humming, or loving someone I could never have. No matter where I went, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.
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My hatred gives me strength.
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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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Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.
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Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb.
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She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.
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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 felt suddenly cruel, like I´d told dmall children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their Mom sneaking into their room after they went to bed.
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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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I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
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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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They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question?
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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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Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.
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