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“Lost things. They claw through the membranes, attempting to summon our attention through an indecipherable mayday. Words tumble in helpless disorder. The dead speak. We have forgotten how to listen.”
― Patti Smith, M Train: A Memoir

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“became clear to me that beauty has nothing to do with fashion, that love can conquer anything, sex is art, and let’s see . . . hope springs eternal. I love the rain.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

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“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

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“It pleased me to imagine a presence above us, in continual motion, like liquid stars.”
― Patti Smith

tags: beautiful

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“Music was the only other thing that was layered like that, so much that each new component changed the meaning of the whole. And so much building up and holding back-promising and withholding, and withholding, and withholding. You’re going to die without it. You’re never going to get it. You’re going to die. Here it is.”
― Elif Batuman, Either/Or

tags: music

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