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"Just Kids" Quotes

"Just Kids" is a memoir by Patti Smith recounting her deep friendship and artistic journey with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in New York City during the late 1960s and 1970s.

Quotes

I was asleep when he died. I had called the hospital to say I was coming, but it was too late.

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lossgrief

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

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friendshipindependence

In my inexperienced mind, I imagined that as long as I kept moving forward, travel would eventually deliver me to my destination.

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journeyhope

Nothing is finished until you see it.

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perceptioncompletion

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work he cannot stay in this ecstatic state.

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artcreation

I believed in the goodness of the world, even as all around me, I saw the undeniable evidence of man’s inhumanity to man.

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hopehumanity

It’s not so easy writing about nothing.

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writingcreativity

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.

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adventureinnocence

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.

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arttransformation

When you hit a wall, just kick it in.

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determinationobstacles