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I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
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Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time.
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