Armistead Jones Maupin Jr Quotes

• When I get back from this book tour, I’m planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace.

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• Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.

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• Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

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• The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

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• The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

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• My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don’t make that mistake yourself. Life’s too damn short.

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• Like I’ve always said, love wouldn’t be blind if the braille weren’t so damned much fun.

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• It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer’s device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.

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• I’ve included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

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

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• I’ve always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.

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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.

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• I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

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• I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

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• I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don’t make that mistake yourself. Life’s too damn short.

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• I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value.

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• I haven’t lost faith in human nature and I haven’t decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

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• I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It’s easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.

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• I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.

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• I can’t imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you’ve made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I’ve heard it before does not mean I don’t want to hear it one more time.

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Birth:	13th May, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr. was born in Washington, D.C. He is an American writer, best known for his Tales of the City series of novels, set in San Francisco. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he became involved in journalism through writing for The Daily Tar Heel.[7] After earning his undergraduate degree, Maupin enrolled in law school but later dropped out. Maupin's work on a Charleston newspaper was followed with an offer of a position at the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press in 1971. The first of Maupin's novels, entitled Tales of the City, was published in 1978. Five more followed in the 1980s, ending with the last book, Sure of You, in 1989. The Tales of the City books have been translated into ten languages, and there are more than six million copies in print. In 1994, “Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City” became a PBS miniseries which won a Peabody Award.

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