Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
PATTI SMITHI’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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I don’t know why, the very first word on my very first record is ‘Jesus.’ I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.
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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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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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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 was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
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I was never a singer, I can’t play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn’t have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.
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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 had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
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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 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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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
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