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I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.

Patti Smith

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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Political Rock Yesterday
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
PATTI SMITH

Fun Go Inspirational Letting
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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Art Piece Sexually Thinking
Even as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
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Children Lipstick Need Red
I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
PATTI SMITH

Laureate Long Poet
I’ve lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.
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Alcohol Causes Drug
Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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Mortals Poetry Remember
A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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Artist Hand Zipper
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
Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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Fire Love Romantic
You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
PATTI SMITH

Good Scales Trust Zipper
All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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Children Want Wonderful
I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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Nostalgic Person Really
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.
PATTI SMITH

Hand People Vision
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
I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
PATTI SMITH

Artist Hungered Proof Stuff

I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.

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