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Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.
Janet Fitch
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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Journalist
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University Teacher
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LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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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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At every moment, each instrument knew what to play. Its little bit. But none could see the whole thing like this, all at once, only its own part. Just like life. Each person was like a line of music, but nobody knew what the symphony sounded like. Only the conductor had the whole score.
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Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.
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Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say.
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She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.
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I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean't.
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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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I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
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I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.
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She kissed me on the mouth. Her mouth tasted like iced coffee and cardamom, and I was overwhelmed by the taste, her hot skin and the smell of unwashed hair. I was confused, but not unwilling. I would have let her do anything to me.
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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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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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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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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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What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?
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Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.
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purification in fire. public cremation
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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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...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object, the way you'd stare at an animal. She pretended not to notice. To remind them she was a person was too much effort. Objects bore no guilt.
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