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The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out.

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Patti Smith
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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Everybody's got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again.
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My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.
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Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
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A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.
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My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.
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Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.
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Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.
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I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.
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Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.
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I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need.
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I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.
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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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Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.
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Love is an angel disguised as lust.
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I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor.
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One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.
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New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.
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I wanted to remember the original energy strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.
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Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.
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I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms.
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