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I never thought heroin was very chic.
Nan Goldin
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Nan Goldin
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 12
Photographer
Printmaker
Washington
District of Columbia
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I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.
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In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, We don't have anything in your size.
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I've got really prolific since I moved to Paris where I am living permanently, for the rest of my life, until I find another idea. I have really close women friends here: Valerie, Raymonde, not Joana so much, Maria Schneider, who was always a real heroine of mine who and has now become a close friend.
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The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.
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If I say something honestly, generally, I am being completely honest and don't tell me I am lying. It drives me crazy to be told I set up my pictures. How does it benefit me to lie? I guess they are afraid to believe it and are afraid to look at it.
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