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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: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?
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Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.
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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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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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Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.
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Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what the world smells like, what the textures are, what the sounds are, what the light looks like, what the weather is.
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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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The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.
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Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.
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You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.
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I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?
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No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.
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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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And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty seperate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door.
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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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How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.
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His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral Sea. We were like cobras following a reed flute.
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Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.
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She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.
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They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question?
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