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Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.

Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.

Janet Fitch
Artist, Past, Phoenix

without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.

Janet Fitch
Past, Faces, Scar
"White Oleander". Book by Janet Fitch, 1999.

at least if you were ignorant you could do wat you wanted. you had no idea wat had been acheived in the past. you were free instead of chewed at by bleeding impotence, dissolved away like a pearl in acid

Janet Fitch
Past, Ideas, Ignorant

Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.

Janet Fitch
Thinking, Past, America
Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

We parked in back and walked down the stairs with their polished brass railings, past the old-fashioned kitchen. We could see the chefs cooking. It smelled like stew, or meat loaf, the way time should smell, solid and nourishing.

Janet Fitch
Past, Smell, Cooking
Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.137, Hachette UK

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