"I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it."

Robert Mapplethorpe, American Photographer

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"I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

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"Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight."

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"This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it."

Hope

"The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved."

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"My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be."

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"I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree."

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"My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be."

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"When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist."

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"I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please."

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"If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live."

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