Patti Smith Quotes

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Patti Smith Quotes

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Grateful

“My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns.”

People Mother Father

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Melancholic

“I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.”

Thinking Gender Ancestry

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Funny

“It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).”

Band Psychedelic

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Inspired

“I hated the soup and felt little for the can.”

Littles Hated

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Nostalgic

“Toyland, toyland . . . once you pass its portals you may never return again.”

May Return Portal

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Lonely

“We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.”

Way Distance

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Thoughtful

“I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.”

Thinking Feels

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Hopeful

“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.”

Political Rocks Yesterday

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Grateful

“As much as I can, as much as I can afford, I keep ticket prices down. Rock 'n' roll was developed as the people's voice, the people's art, it was grassroots. I don't believe that the people should be estranged from their rock stars. They're not kings and queens - all rock stars are those who are able to give back a bit of culture to other people. It's people's heritage.”

Art Kings Queens

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Confident

“I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.”

Long Would Be

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Philosophical

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

Men Peace

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Thoughtful

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

Matter Facts Perfection

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