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 SMITHFor 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.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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I started resenting how much art robs from life. I’d go to a party and I couldn’t enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could think was how I was going to reinvent the experience into a piece of art.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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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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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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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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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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Even as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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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.
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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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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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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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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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