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A half-hour conversation with Binky was like eating a Whitman Sampler in one sitting.
— Armistead Maupin
Solitude was no reason for sloppiness
— Armistead Maupin
Her apartment seemed fussier than ever, as if the doilies and tassels had taken to breeding in their unguarded moments.
— Armistead Maupin
Being in love is the only transcendent experience.
— Armistead Maupin
Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth.
— Armistead Maupin
If she ever had a child, she would want him to grow up in San Francisco, where Mardi Gras was celebrated at least five times a year.
— Armistead Maupin
I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.
— Armistead Maupin
Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!
— Armistead Maupin
There is no fifth destination.
— Armistead Maupin
I think a lot of gay people who are not dealing with their homosexuality get into right- wing politics.
— Armistead Maupin
I felt very close to God ... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.
— Armistead Maupin
I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life.
— Armistead Maupin
I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.
— Armistead Maupin
Small world, huh?"She grinned lewdly. "Not particularly. I'd say you've just run out of material. — Armistead Maupin
Everybody is Other in Maupin.
— Christopher Bram
She was Anna Madrigal, a self-made woman, and there was no one else in the world exactly like her.
— Armistead Maupin
Jesus Christ, you people are complicated.
— Armistead Maupin
The worst of times in San Francisco was still better than the best of times anywhere else.
— Armistead Maupin
He should have made a checklist for every step of this transformational journey to radical self-expression.
— Armistead Maupin
Somepeople drink to foregt, I smoke to remember Anna Madrigal in Tales of the City ...
— Armistead Maupin
Hey, you look at your tits; I'll look at mine! (Michael Tolliver, Tales of the City)
— Armistead Maupin
I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.
— Armistead Maupin
When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace.
— Armistead Maupin
It's time to get mad, Michael. Niceness doesn't count for shit!
— Armistead Maupin
Things speed up as you circle the drain.Armistead Maupin on ageing — Armistead Maupin
I couldn't write - or wouldn't write, at any rate - unable to face the grueling self-scrutiny that fiction demands
— Armistead Maupin
Actions have consequences. In actions have them. We set things in motion by what we don't do.
— Armistead Maupin
I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.
— Armistead Maupin
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
The rules of a well-ordered life were never enough when other people refused to obey them.
— Armistead Maupin
Then they would both dissolve in giggles, bowing in their mirth to the awful hopelessness of it all.
— Armistead Maupin
Life goes on, sport.
— Armistead Maupin
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
— Armistead Maupin
A pristine landscape was perfection itself; it was only when you added people that everything changed.
— Armistead Maupin
Outing is a nasty word for telling the truth.
— Armistead Maupin
I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.
— Armistead Maupin
If you're going to be degenerate, you might as well be a lady about it, don't you think?
— Armistead Maupin
Brian's face turned pouty. "So you were just blowing smoke up my ass." Anna smiled dimly. "You may have been inhaling, dear, but I wasn't blowing.
— Armistead Maupin
It makes more sense if you've lived it." A
— Armistead Maupin
You cannot be loved by someone who doesn't want to know you.
— Armistead Maupin
Don't listen when they scoffThat you are too old and I am young,
For I am old enough to know better
And you are young enough not to care. — Armistead Maupin
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— Armistead Maupin
All I know is this: If you and papa are responsible for the way I am, then I thank you with all my heart, for it is the light and the joy of my life.
— Armistead Maupin
Mona ... lots of things are more binding than sex. They last longer too.
— Armistead Maupin
We're gonna be ... I mean people like you and me ... we're gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists.
— Armistead Maupin
Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.
— Armistead Maupin
I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
— Armistead Maupin
I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.
— Armistead Maupin
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
— Armistead Maupin
Needing and loving are two different things.
— Armistead Maupin
An obsessed reader figured that 'Armistead Maupin' was an anagram for 'is a man I dreamt up'.
— Christopher Bram
The earth knows exactly how to hold us if we just let it.
— Armistead Maupin
I want to deceive him just long enough to make him want me..
— Armistead Maupin
Garbage, you know, is very revealing.It beats the shit out of tarot cards.
— Armistead Maupin
Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.
— Armistead Maupin
Umbed by disappointment and betrayal, like a child who had been awakened suddenly from a summer dream about christmas morning.
— Armistead Maupin
