Janet Fitch Quotes

• God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.

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• Love is temperamental. tiring. it makes demands. love uses you. changes its mind.

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• Memory is the fourth landscape.

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• The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.

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• There is no God, there is only what you want.

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• Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.

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• A cliche is everything you’ve ever heard of.

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• Love is a check, that can be forged, that can be cashed. Love is a payment that comes due.

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• Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.

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• A woman mistakes are different from a girls.

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• One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.

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• Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn’t see possibilities. Then came despair.

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• Women always put men first. That’s how everything got so screwed up.

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• You’ve got to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

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• I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter’s hand.

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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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• Don’t turn over the rocks if you don’t want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

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• Always learn poems by heart,’ she said. ‘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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• A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.

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• The phoenix must burn to emerge.

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Janet Fitch (20)

Birth:	9th November, 1955
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

About

Janet Fitch was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an American writer. She is most famously known as the author of the Oprah's Book Club novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. She studied at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and Keele University. She has worked as a proofreader, typesetter, graphic artist, newspaper editor, magazine editor, freelance journalist and teacher of creative writing. She has written other books include: Paint It Black(novel), Kicks, The Revolution of Marina M. and The Art and Craft of Jewellery.

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• 1956 - Ron Dee White
• 1913 - Willy Brandt
• 1943 - Alan Rudolph
• 1950 - Randy Castillo
• 1968 - Rachel Griffiths

Deaths

• 1999 - Robert Bresson
• 1912 - Will Carleton
• 1892 - Richard Owen
• 2006 - Joseph Barbera
• 1971 - Robert Tyre Jones Jr.