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“Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.”

“Patti, did art get us?'
I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.'
Perhaps it did, but no one could regret that. Only a fool would regret being had by art; or a saint.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“In time we often become one with those we once failed to understand.”

Patti Smith M Train

Source: M Train

“He took twelve pictures that day.
Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. "This one has the magic," he said.
When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“Time to travel, to acquiesce to fate.”

Patti Smith M Train

M Train

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

Babelogue, from Easter (1978)
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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?”

Land
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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.”

People Have the Power, from Dream of Life (1988)
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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?”

Rock N Roll Nigger, from Easter (1978)
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“Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.”

Patti Smith: Can You Hear Me Ethiopia?, Cohen, Scott, Circus Magazine, 1976-12-14 http://www.oceanstar.com/patti/intervus/761214ci.htm,

“She is a soldier. She will not be defeated.”

The Immortals: The First Fifty, Manson, Shirley, Rolling Stone, 2004-04-15, Rolling Stone Issue 946 http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5939214/the_immortals_the_first_fifty,