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I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.

Patti Smith

I’m a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I’m happy.
PATTI SMITH

Communicate Embrace Need People
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
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
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.
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Actual Artist Human Matters
You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
PATTI SMITH

Good Scales Trust Zipper
One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
PATTI SMITH

Day One Together Work
Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)
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Color Soul Vowel
Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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Mortals Poetry Remember
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

Alien Gender People
Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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Path Questions Twisted Unanswered
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
Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
PATTI SMITH

Closets Quiet Writing
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
For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
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Give Horoscope Mother Year
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
PATTI SMITH

Fun Go Inspirational Letting
A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
PATTI SMITH

Artist Hand Zipper

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