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> [If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/if-evil-means-to-be-self-motivated-to-be-the-center-of-one-s-own/)

[Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f07/janet-fitch-717_art_if-evil-means-to-be-self-motivated-to-be_2175045.png)

> [“I regret nothing. No woman with any self-respect would have done less. The question of good and evil will always be one of philosophy's most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself. I'm not quarreling with your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/i-regret-nothing-no-woman-with-any-self-respect-would-have-done-less/)

[Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/)

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## More by Janet Fitch

> [How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/how-could-anybody-confuse-truth-with-beauty-i-thought-as-i-looked-at/)

[Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/)

> [I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/i-love-derrick-brown-for-the-surprise-of-one-word-waking-up-next-to/)

[Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/)

> [“That fucking crow-bodied thing had won. How gleeful it was now. All because he'd wanted to live, forget genius and destiny, and simply be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/that-fucking-crow-bodied-thing-had-won-how-gleeful-it-was-now-all/)

[Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/)

> [No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/no-matter-how-unappealing-each-of-them-imagines-he-is-somehow-worthy/)

[Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/)

> [The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/the-nearest-i-d-come-to-feeling-anything-like-god-was-the-plan-blue/)

[Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/)

> [When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/when-most-people-looked-at-josie-tyrell-they-only-saw-a-certain/)

[Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/)

> [“They can't touch us. We're the Vikings. We go into battle without armor for the flush and the blood of it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/they-can-t-touch-us-we-re-the-vikings-we-go-into-battle-without-armor/)

[Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/)

> [“But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/but-i-knew-one-more-thing-that-people-who-denied-who-they-were-or/)

[Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/)

> [“To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind's destiny, the engine which fuels us as a race. Three…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/to-dare-to-see-is-to-steal-fire-from-the-gods-this-is-mankind-s/)

[Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/)

> [This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/this-is-what-happens-when-you-fall-in-love-you-re-looking-at-a/)

[Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/)

> [“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. Men who loaded trains, emergency…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/if-i-were-a-poet-that-s-what-i-d-write-about-people-who-worked-in-the/)

[Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/)

> [“what was the point in creating something that was so futile and so precious? everything beautiful was like that. a little bit of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/what-was-the-point-in-creating-something-that-was-so-futile-and-so/)

[Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/)

> [“We received our coloring from Norsemen. Hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees. We are the ones…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/we-received-our-coloring-from-norsemen-hairy-savages-who-hacked-their/)

[Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/)

> [¨Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/loneliness-is-the-human-condition-cultivate-it-the-way-it-tunnels/)

[Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/)

> [I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/i-was-tired-of-men-hanging-in-doorways-standing-too-close-men-who/)

[Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/)

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