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  1. Armistead Maupin _ Tales of the City

    THERE WERE MORNINGS WHEN VINCENT FELT LIKE THE last hippie in the world. The Last Hippie. The phrase assumed a kind of tragic grandeur as he stood in the bathroom of his Oak Street flat, fluffing his amber mane to conceal his missing ear. If
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  2. Armistead Maupin _ Further Tales of the City

    I busted my butt trying to be everything to one person. Finally, I had to settle for being one thing to every person.
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  3. Armistead Maupin _ The Days of Anna Madrigal: A

    Ohhh, that feels lovely. The earth knows exactly how to hold us if we just let it.
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  4. Armistead Maupin _ 28 Barbary Lane

    The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of mind. If you do, you're screwed but good. Not right away, maybe, but sooner or later. You have to-I don't know-you have to learn to live with yourself. You have to learn to turn back your own sheets and set a table for one without feeling pathetic. You have to be strong and confident and pleased with yourself and never give the slightest impression that you can't hack it without that certain goddamn someone. You have to fake the hell out of it.
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  5. Armistead Maupin _ Logical Family: A Memoir

    spotted the playwright in a crowd of shiny-faced people, all scrambling to be photographed with him. He had plastered a smile on his face, but he looked bereft and empty. Trapped. It was the most chilling image of fame I had ever seen thus far.
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  6. Armistead Maupin _ Logical Family: A Memoir

    My youth would be like that, the slow decay of cherished myths-about politics and race, about love itself-until nothing was left but compost from which something authentic could finally begin to grow.
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  7. Armistead Maupin _ Michael Tolliver Lives

    footnotes to a feeling
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  8. Armistead Maupin _ Michael Tolliver Lives

    And I'd like Ben there, of course, cuddling me into the void with the usual sweet assurances.
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  9. Armistead Maupin _ Tales of the City

    The rules of a well-ordered life were never enough when other people refused to obey them.
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  10. Armistead Maupin _ Mary Ann in Autumn

    I have always preferred an occasional orgy to a nightly routine.""What?""Aunt Augusta said that. In Travels with My Aunt.
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  11. Armistead Maupin _ Mary Ann in Autumn

    Your hair has always been amazing. I remember those fabulous chopsticks you used to wear."Anna wore a look of amused chagrin. "I'm afraid Mr. Greenleaf won't let me wear those anymore. I took a little tumble one night and almost harpooned the cat."This was very much the Anna she remembered: warm and self-mocking and complete present. And somehow that made it even harder to accept how frail she'd become since Mary Ann's last visit.
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  12. Armistead Maupin _ Mary Ann in Autumn

    We have rules. Full disclosure, for one thing. And we're in bed with each other at the end of the day. Our commitment is for life, and we save our hearts for each other. That way we can have play AND permanency. If monogamy becomes more important than fidelity, you're bound to get hurt. It's all the lying that clobbers you, not the sex.
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