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My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn’t come anymore, but I had his support.

Patti Smith

I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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Always Consider Myself Writer
My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn’t come anymore, but I had his support.
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Couple Father Loss
I’m a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I’m happy.
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Communicate Embrace Need People
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
Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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Fire Love Romantic
I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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Nostalgic Person Really
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
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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Around Dawn Roaming World
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.
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Fun Go Inspirational Letting
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
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
Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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Horizontal Lines Neat World
Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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Adventure Design Fate
In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one’s work caged in art’s great zoos – the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?
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Art Period Point Talk Zoos
In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one’s work caged in art’s great zoos – the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?
PATTI SMITH

Animate Art Period Talk Zoo

My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn’t come anymore, but I had his support.

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