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People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.
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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My mother answers all my fan mail.
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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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It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)
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What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.
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Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
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