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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
Life
Optimist
Depressed
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Many

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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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The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.
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It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
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Let me tell you a few things about regret...There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air in between, or each link separately as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself?
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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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Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.
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It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.
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She was a beautiful woman dragging a crippled foot and I was that foot. I was bricks sewn into the hem of her clothes, I was a steel dress
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There is no God, there is only what you want.
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I could hear the icy winds of Sweden, but he didn't seem to feel the chill.
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We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.
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We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.
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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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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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here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out
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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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Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.
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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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A womans mistakes are different from a girls
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I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
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