Patti Smith quotes

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine. (Patti Smith)
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
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An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
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Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
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I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.
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In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
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He spared the child and spoiled the rod I have not sold myself to God!
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People have the power To redeem the work of fools Upon the meek the graces shower It's decreed the people rule.
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I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.
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I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation... (Patti Smith)
Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
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Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.
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Paths that cross will cross again.
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Life is filled with holes Johnny's laying there in his sperm coffin The angel looks down at him and says "Oh, pretty boy Can't you show me nothing but surrender?
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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 understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.
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What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.
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I wish I could just project everything on the paper.
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Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed. (Patti Smith)
Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.
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Got to lose control before you take control.
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We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn't want to be without each other.
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