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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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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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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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I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.
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I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.
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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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People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
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