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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.
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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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Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.
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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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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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What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?
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Inside every human being, there is unlimited time and space.
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Wasn't that the way it always was? You didn't know, you couldn't tell, you just let it happen... Perhaps they didn't know themselves. Sometimes the line was very fine.
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Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in an old fashioned gun. Then it exploded in your face on a November day in the rain.
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here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out
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Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.
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I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.
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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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She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.
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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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I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.
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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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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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Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.
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Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.
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