Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
PATTI SMITHI was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late ’50s and early ’60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late ’50s and early ’60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.
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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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I’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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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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I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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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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You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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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.
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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.
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Well, I’m not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I’m performing, that’s what I’m doing. If I’m not, I don’t long for it. I don’t need the approval of an audience, or applause.
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Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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I think it’s important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.
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I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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