“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”
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“Fuck', I think. What a beautiful word. If I could say only one thing for the rest of my life, that would be it.”
― The Descendants
― The Descendants
“I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
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“Well I haven't fucked much with the past,
But I've fucked plenty with the future.
- Babelogue”
― Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970-2015: Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future
But I've fucked plenty with the future.
- Babelogue”
― Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970-2015: Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future
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