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.
PATTI SMITHHail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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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.
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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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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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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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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I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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I’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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