Patti Smith Short Quotes

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An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

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Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him.

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Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

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Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.

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Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.

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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?

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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.

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He spared the child and spoiled the rod
I have not sold myself to God!

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I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

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What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.

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We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.

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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.

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Those who have suffered understand suffering
and thereby extend their hand.

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I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.

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It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies

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The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.

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I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.

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These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.

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Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

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Best of everything there was
and everything there is to come
is often undocumented.

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Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

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The people have the power
The power to dream to rule
To wrestle the world from fools.

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Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.

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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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I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

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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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I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.

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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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We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.

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Look around you, all around you
Riding on a copper wave
Do you like the world around you?
Are you ready to behave?

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