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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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"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."
"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."
"Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again."
"Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little butter. It certainly couldn't hurt. And jam...no, he drew the line at jam. She was a spy, after all."
"Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and withdrawing our thoughts from that of which every hour brings us nearer to the beginning, and of which no length of time will bring us to the end. Mortification is not virtuous in itself, nor has any other use, but that it disengages us from the allurements of sense. In the state of future perfection, to which we all aspire, there will be pleasure without danger, and security without restraint."
"If God offers the world for sale, how much will you pay for it? What is the price of your own destruction?"
"You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd."
"Everything Satan has to offer you is a collection of what Jesus rejected, it is the garbage bin of Jesus Christ. Matthew 4:1-17."
"Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it."
"Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop, the gut expanded to take in more and more."
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"A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population."
"I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me."
"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."
"Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more."
"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."
"In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that."
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