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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.

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
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Fragmented
Every
Block
Anymore
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Universe
House
Look
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There is no God, there is only what you want.
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I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.
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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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without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.
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