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Patti Smith Quotes: I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit.
         

I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit.


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Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.



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