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The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.
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I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.
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We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.
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Punk rock is just another word for freedom.
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People need space to air out their thoughts, to have a sense of themselves - unfettered by anything.
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Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.
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Just because I've extricated myself from religion doesn't mean I'm not interested in the scriptures. I look at the Bible as itself. It's a holy book, it has incredible literature in it and beautiful poetry.
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I love being alive. I like being a human being.
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Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
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People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.
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I have disciplined myself when I'm working. When I discovered art, I realized that one could keep that search going within creation. But I also realize that in order to create the art, you have to stay, you can't go too far.
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I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One couldn't imagine the cruelty that trans people had to face back then.
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I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.
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I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.
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I loved books I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.
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I find it painful when I'm without anything. But I work in multiple fields. If I can't write, I find myself taking photographs. I can go on the road and perform. But the most important thing for me is writing, and when I hit those walls, it's painful.
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So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.
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Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.
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