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Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.

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Patti Smith
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
Drawer
Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
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Photographer
Poet
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Chicago
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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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We tried not to age, but time had its rage.
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Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
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A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.
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I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
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I didn't want any middle-of-the-road creep. I always wanted the toughest guy in school, the guy from south Philly who wore tight black pants. Y'know, the guy who carried the umbrella and wore white shirts with real thin black ties. I was really nuts over this guy named Butchie Magic 'cause he let me carry his switchblade.
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I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.
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That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from.
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I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.
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I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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