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M Train QUOTES

M Train QUOTES

1 " And then I walked out, straight through the twilight, treading the beaten earth. There were no dust clouds, no signs of anyone, but I paid no mind. I was my own lucky hand of solitaire. The desert landscape unchanging: a long, unwinding scroll that I would one day amuse myself by filling. I'm going to remember everything and then I'm going to write it all down. An aria to a coat. A requiem for a café. That's what I was thinking, in my dream, looking down at my hands. "

― Patti Smith , M Train

2 " He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin. "

― Patti Smith , M Train

3 " I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself. "

― Patti Smith , M Train

4 " All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms. "

― Patti Smith , M Train

5 " I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works. "

― Patti Smith , M Train

6 " Is it time uninterrupted? Only the present comprehended? Are our thoughts nothing but passing trains, no stops, devoid of dimension, whizzing by massive posters with repeating images? Catching a fragment from a window seat, yet another fragment from the next identical frame? If I write in the present yet digress, is that still real time? Real time, I reasoned, cannot be divided into sections like numbers on the face of a clock. If I write about the past as I simultaneously dwell in the present, am I still in real time? Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory. "

― Patti Smith , M Train

7 " Home is a desk. The amalgamation of a dream. Home is the cats, my books, and my work never done. All the lost things that may one day call to me, the faces of my children who will one day call to me. Maybe we can't draw flesh from reverie nor retrieve a dusty spur, but we can gather the dream itself and bring it back uniquely whole. "

― Patti Smith , M Train

8 " I believe in movement. I believe in that lighthearted balloon, the world. I believe in midnight and the hour of noon. But what else do I believe in? Sometimes everything. Sometimes nothing. It fluctuates like light flitting over a pond. I believe in life, which one day each of us shall lose. When we are young we thing we won't, that we are different. As a child I thought that I would never grow up, that I could will it so. And then I realized, quite recently, that I had crossed some line, unconsciously cloaked in the truth of my chronology. How did we get so damn old? "

― Patti Smith , M Train

9 " How wonderful it would be to meet an angel, I mused, but then I immediately realised I already had. Not an archangel like Saint Michael, but my human angel from Detroit, wearing an overcoat and no hat, with lank brown hair and eyes the coler of water. "

― Patti Smith , M Train

10 " How wonderful it would be to meet an angel, I mused, but then I immediately realised that I already had. Not an archangel like Saint Michael, but my human engel from Detroit, wearing an overcoat and no hat, with lank brown hair and eyes the coler of water. "

― Patti Smith , M Train

11 " In my way of thinking, anything is possible. Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all. "

― Patti Smith , M Train

12 " -What is nothing? I impetuously asked.
-It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the answer. "

― Patti Smith , M Train

13 " It ain't so easy writing about nothin "

― Patti Smith , M Train

14 " My penance for barely being present in the world, not the world between the pages of books, or the layered atmosphere of my own mind, but the world that is real to others "

― Patti Smith , M Train

15 " We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality. "

― Patti Smith , M Train

16 " -I love you, I whispered to all, to none.
-Love not lightly, I heard him say. "

― Patti Smith , M Train

17 " Nothing can be truly replicated. Not a love, not a jewel, not a single line. "

― Patti Smith , M Train

18 " How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they’re gone? "

― Patti Smith , M Train

19 " In time we often become one with those we once failed to understand. "

― Patti Smith , M Train

20 " I believe in movement. I believe in that lighthearted balloon, the world. I believe in midnight and the hour of noon. But what else do I believe in? Sometimes everything. Sometimes nothing. It fluctuates like light flitting over a pond. "

― Patti Smith , M Train