"Beauty and the devil are the same thing."

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Source : " 'He was a sexual outlaw': my love affair with Robert Mapplethorpe" by Jack Fritscher, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2016.

Robert Mapplethorpe

“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”
“If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.”
“Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.”
“We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.”
“The purpose of formulating [a] conflict as a game is not that of resolving the conflict by 'solving the game.' It is that of displaying the structure of the conflict and thereby exposing features of it that may be concealed by rhetoric. In particular, appreciation of the peculiar structure of some of the so-called mixed-motive conflicts represented nonzero-sum games may change the conflicting parties' perception of their situation.”

Source : "Advances in Reversal Theory" by M.J. Apter, ‎J.H. Kerr, ‎S. Murgatroyd, (p. 63-64), 1993.
“Lost In Space fans are going to get organized, because we'll see them showing up in all the theatres.”
“I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.”

Source : "Ex-Astronaut Recalls Thrill of 1st U.S. Space Flight" by Marcia Dunn, The Deseret News, p. A, May 01, 1991.
“Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly.”

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