Armistead Maupin Quotes - Page 2

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• There is no fifth destination.

  Armistead Maupin

  Destination, Fifth

  Armistead Maupin (2012). “Michael Tolliver Lives: Tales of the City 7”, p.144, Random House

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• Writing is too hard not to do exactly what you want to do. It's a very draining and agonizing process for me, and I don't want to live with any piece of work that I don't believe in completely. I have to believe completely in what I'm doing. It has grown organically out of my own experience.

  Armistead Maupin

  Believe, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

  Armistead Maupin

  Communication, Opportunity, Phones

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• I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life

  Armistead Maupin

  Pieces, My Own, Bits

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• Outing is a nasty word for telling the truth.

  Armistead Maupin

  Gay, Nasty, Telling The Truth

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• In her opinion, the parrots were annoying arrogant. You could buy the most beautiful one in town, she observed, but that won't make it love you. You could feed it, care for it and exclaim over its loveliness, but there was nothing to guarantee that it would stay home with you. There had to be a lesson in there somewhere.

  Armistead Maupin

  Beautiful, Breakup, Love You

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• I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.

  Armistead Maupin

  Knees, My Friends, Felt

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• I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.

  Armistead Maupin

  Aggravation, Gabriel

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• I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.

  Armistead Maupin

  Rocks, Age, Fame

  "The loneliest man in Frisco" by Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2000.

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• If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there.

  Armistead Maupin

  Locks, Way, Madness

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• But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.

  Armistead Maupin

  Children, Gay, Men

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• Solitude was no reason for sloppiness

  Armistead Maupin

  Solitude, Sloppiness, Reason

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