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<blockquote>I have to hold on to the fact that I have my own life, and I have duties that I have to perform. I have a family to take care of. But I also have the same calling I did when I was young: to nourish and to do the work that I believe I was given the possibility to do. I’m not going to let anything shake that faith, no matter what kind of rubble or debris of our time I have to walk through. . . . I’m just going to keep doing my work. Patti Smith <ref>Patti Smith, “Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever,” The Ezra Klein Show, New York Times, online@1:15:50</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>I have to hold on to the fact that I have my own life, and I have duties that I have to perform. I have a family to take care of. But I also have the same calling I did when I was young: to nourish and to do the work that I believe I was given the possibility to do. I’m not going to let anything shake that faith, no matter what kind of rubble or debris of our time I have to walk through. . . . I’m just going to keep doing my work. Patti Smith (2025)<ref>Patti Smith, “Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever,” The Ezra Klein Show, New York Times, online@1:15:50</ref></blockquote> | ||
<p>Halloween, I decided to call my memoir, <i>Unfinished — A Working Life</i>. Starting it had been difficult. Old, with my countdown underway, I worried that my best work still laid fallow in my drawers. With much wanting attention, where should I begin? And once begun, what thread would hold it all together? But don't all lives just end, unfinished | |||
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Unfinished—A Working Life
I have to hold on to the fact that I have my own life, and I have duties that I have to perform. I have a family to take care of. But I also have the same calling I did when I was young: to nourish and to do the work that I believe I was given the possibility to do. I’m not going to let anything shake that faith, no matter what kind of rubble or debris of our time I have to walk through. . . . I’m just going to keep doing my work. Patti Smith (2025)[1]
Halloween, I decided to call my memoir, Unfinished — A Working Life. Starting it had been difficult. Old, with my countdown underway, I worried that my best work still laid fallow in my drawers. With much wanting attention, where should I begin? And once begun, what thread would hold it all together? But don't all lives just end, unfinished
- ↑ Patti Smith, “Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever,” The Ezra Klein Show, New York Times, online@1:15:50