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"I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so."
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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
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"I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now."

"There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations."

"Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body."

"That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is."

"I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time."

"If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there."

"The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy."

"What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them."
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