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I’ve always considered myself a writer.

Patti Smith

All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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Children Want Wonderful
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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Fun Go Inspirational Letting
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
One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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Day One Together Work
Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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Horizontal Lines Neat World
I’m okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I’ll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I’m in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.
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Around Dawn Roaming World
So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.
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Eye Light Recognition Sleep
Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.
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Artist Nothing Subject Two
With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn’t know who to work with.
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Collaborator Lost Photograph
I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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Loneliness Space Understood
I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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Nostalgic Person Really
Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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Mortals Poetry Remember
I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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Laureate Long Poet
I’ve always considered myself a writer.
PATTI SMITH

Always Consider Myself Writer
I’m a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I’m happy.
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Communicate Embrace Need People
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.
PATTI SMITH

Desire Emerald Loss

I’ve always considered myself a writer.

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