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Armistead Maupin QUOTES

21 " Somepeople drink to foregt, I smoke to remember" Anna Madrigal in Tales of the City... "

― Armistead Maupin , Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)

22 " Needing and loving are two different things. "

― Armistead Maupin , Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #3)

23 " Mona … lots of things are more binding than sex. They last longer too. "

― Armistead Maupin , Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)

24 " It all goes so fast, she thought. We dole out our lives in dinner parties and plane flights, and it's over before we know it. We lose everyone we love, if they don't lose us first, and every single thing we do is intended to distract us from that reality. "

― Armistead Maupin , Mary Ann in Autumn (Tales of the City, #8)

25 " 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 , Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)

26 " ..numbed by disappointment and betrayal, like a child who had been awakened suddenly from a summer dream about christmas morning. "

― Armistead Maupin , 28 Barbary Lane: The Tales of the City Omnibus (Tales of the City, #1-3)

27 " if you’re going to be degenerate, you might as well be a lady about it, don’t you think? "

― Armistead Maupin , Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)

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

― Armistead Maupin , Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #3)

29 " Hey, you look at your tits; I'll look at mine! (Michael Tolliver, Tales of the City) "

― Armistead Maupin , Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)

30 " It occurred to Michael that this was the great perk of being loved: someone to wait for you, someone to tell you that it will get easier up ahead. Even when it might not be true. "

― Armistead Maupin , The Days of Anna Madrigal (Tales of the City, #9)

31 " I want to deceive him just long enough to make him want me.. "

― Armistead Maupin , 28 Barbary Lane: The Tales of the City Omnibus (Tales of the City, #1-3)

32 " The bay was bright blue today, the hard fierce blue of a gas flame. If there was fog rolling in—and there must be, given the insistence of those horns—she couldn’t see it from here. "

― Armistead Maupin , Mary Ann in Autumn (Tales of the City, #8)

33 " She lifted the book to her nose and inhaled the scent lingering in its cardboard bones: a hint of rosewater and Lysol that instantly genie-summoned the Blue Moon Lodge. It was Winnemucca condensed, this book, the only thing she owned that could still predictably take her from here to there. "

― Armistead Maupin , The Days of Anna Madrigal (Tales of the City, #9)

34 " Such a suitable word, stroke. I'd heard it since childhood without fully understanding its meaning, but it sounded, even through a haze of sleep and dope, just like itself: abrupt and brutal and irreversible. A stroke of lightning, the stroke of midnight, the stroke of a pen. "

― Armistead Maupin , The Night Listener

35 " we’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists. "

― Armistead Maupin , Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)

36 " You cannot be loved by someone who doesn't want to know you. "

― Armistead Maupin , The Days of Anna Madrigal (Tales of the City, #9)

37 " Michael’s generation—its history of fighting disease and bigotry—sometimes made him grumpier than Ben would like him to be, but he knew what he’d found in Michael: a gift for intimacy like none Ben had ever known. "

― Armistead Maupin , The Days of Anna Madrigal (Tales of the City, #9)

38 " It was like school spirit back in high school. He didn’t have it then, and he didn’t have it now. To him, the biggest advantage of being queer was being queer. "

― Armistead Maupin , The Days of Anna Madrigal (Tales of the City, #9)

39 " Her Mao tse-tung t-shirt was stretched so tightly across her chest that the Chairman was grinning broadly "

― Armistead Maupin , 28 Barbary Lane: The Tales of the City Omnibus (Tales of the City, #1-3)

40 " There’s a theory,” said Anna, handing him a cup of tea as she climbed back into bed, “that we are all Atlanteans.” “Who?” “Us. San Franciscans.” Edgar grinned indulgently, bracing himself for another yarn. Anna caught it. “Do you want to hear it … or are you getting stuffy on me?” “Go ahead. Tell me a story.” “Well … in one of our last incarnations, we were all citizens of Atlantis. All of us. You, me, Frannie, DeDe, Mary Ann…” “Are you sure she’s out of the building?” “She’s gone to her switchboard. Will you relax?” “O.K. I’m relaxed.” “All right, then. We all lived in this lovely, enlightened kingdom that sank beneath the sea a long time ago. Now we’ve come back to this special peninsula on the edge of the continent … because we know, in a secret corner of our minds, that we must return together to the sea.” “The earthquake.” Anna nodded. “Don’t you see? You said the earthquake, not an earthquake. You’re expecting it. We’re all expecting it.” “So what does that have to do with Atlantis?” “The Transamerica Pyramid, for one thing.” “Huh?” “Don’t you know what dominated the skyline of Atlantis, Edgar … the thing that loomed over everything?” He shook his head. “A pyramid! An enormous pyramid with a beacon burning at the top! "

― Armistead Maupin , Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)