Year of the Monkey
Patti Smith
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The trouble with dreaming is that we eventually wake up.”
“This is what I know - Sam is dead. My brother is dead. My mother is dead. My father is dead. My husband is dead. My cat is dead. My dog, who was dead in 1957, is still dead. Yet still I keep thinking that something wonderful is about to happen. Maybe tomorrow.”
“Nothing is ever solved, Solving is an illusion. There are moments of spontaneous brightness, when the mind appears emancipated, but this is more epiphany.”
“I could feel the gravitational pull of home, which when I'm home too long becomes the gravitational pull of somewhere else.”
“Our quiet rage gives us wings, the possibility to negotiate the gears winding backwards uniting all time.”
“Nothing bothered me, not even the things that bothered me.”
“Some dreams aren't dreams at all, just another angle of physical reality.”
“You don’t follow plots you negotiate them.”
“Our dreams are a second life.”
“—There are many truths and there are many worlds, said the sign solemnly. —Yes, I said, feeling quite humbled. And you were right. I did dream, many dreams, and they were much more than dreams, as if originating from the dawn of the mind. Yes, I absolutely dreamed.”
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inspiration, humor, wandering, death, wisdom, hope, life, truth, dream, patti-smith, travel, zen
