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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
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Many
Life

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echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.
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I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?
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To make films, you have to have boundless energy you have to work and play with others really, really well, and I'm really a more contemplative kind of person. I like to sit at home and think, a lot.
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Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.
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I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.
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Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say.
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Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.
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I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.
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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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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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Death like a lover, caressing him, promising him peace, running its fingers through his hair, its tongue in his ear. She put her own two fingers in her mouth. Im so sorry. And pulled the trigger
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How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention.
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like a kid kicked out of class. humiliated and free.
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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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We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.
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The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.
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We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.
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here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out
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Never apologize. Never explain.
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When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.
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