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"This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it."
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"I took a breath and let it go and suddenly the air was crisper and my lungs lighter and suddenly there was him saying my name in different ways and I catch myself throwing glances in the mirror, seeing someone I don't know quite yet but I can't wait to, and that is the start of everything."
"It is currently said that hope goes with youth, and lends to youth its wings of a butterfly; but I fancy that hope is the last gift given to man, and the only gift not given to youth. Youth is pre-eminently the period in which a man can be lyric, fanatical, poetic; but youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged; God has kept that good wine until not. It is from the backs of the elderly gentlemen that the wings of the butterfly should burst."
"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."
"Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home."
"I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness."
"The rest of it - and perhaps the best of it - is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will."
"If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness."
"Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour."
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"Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil."
"People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography."
"I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence."
"If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers."
"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."
"Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love."
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