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"As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon."
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"As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked."
"One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God."
"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."
"My mom's coming home soon,' I said. 'We should go to your place.'Patch ran a hand across the shadow of stubble along his jaw. 'I have rules about who I take there.' I was getting really tired of that answer. 'If you showed me, you'd have to kill me?' I guessed, fighting the urge to feel irritated. 'Once I'm inside, I can never leave?'Patch studied me a moment. Then he reached into his pocket, twisted a key off his key chain, and slipped it into the front pocket of my pajama top. 'Once you've gone inside, you have to keep coming back."
"The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them."
"Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them."
"Be confidently assured that any 'gods' that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them."
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"I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth."
"When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable."
"There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations."
"That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion."
"There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will."
"I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children."
"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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