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I felt alien my whole life but I didn’t feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

Patti Smith

I’m from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.
PATTI SMITH

Drinking Idea Reading
I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.
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Desire Emerald Loss
The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
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Darkness Dream Sorrow
To be an artist – actually, to be a human being in these times – it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.
PATTI SMITH

Actual Artist Human Matters
Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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Assume Boyfriend Hope Pretend
Everybody’s got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock’n’roll, political activismand it’s got to be done over and over again. It’s like eating: you can’t say,’Oh, I ate yesterday’.You have to eat again.
PATTI SMITH

Political Rock Yesterday
I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
PATTI SMITH

Loneliness Space Understood
Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.
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Pocket Two World
I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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Laureate Long Poet
My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn’t come anymore, but I had his support.
PATTI SMITH

Couple Father Loss
I was never a singer, I can’t play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn’t have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.
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Frustration Rock Star
One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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Day One Together Work
I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
PATTI SMITH

Believe Hand Mind
People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone’s vision, because in the end, that’s what you got: your clay in someone else’s hands.
PATTI SMITH

Hand People Vision
I’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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Imagination People Writing
What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
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Artist Ethic Morale Work

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