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The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.

Patti Smith

Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)
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Color Soul Vowel
Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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Brother Distant Future Heart
All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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Children Want Wonderful
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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Hand People Vision
A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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Artist Hand Zipper
One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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Day One Together Work
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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Fun Go Inspirational Letting
I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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Always Consider Myself Writer
I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
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Children Nice Night
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
With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn’t know who to work with.
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Collaborator Lost Photograph
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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Pocket Two World
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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Boyfriend Girl Growi Kid Tomboy
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
Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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Path Questions Twisted Unanswered
I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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Nostalgic Person Really

The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.

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