Quotes by Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

Being In Love

Love

Love Is

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

Addiction

Drug

People

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.

Children

Gay

Men

I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.

Aggravation

Gabriel

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

Felt

Knees

My Friends

I had been a storyteller by instinct all my life. I was that boring little kid who made the rest of his friends sit around the campfire and listen to his ghost stories. It’s been very much a part of my makeup.

Ghost

Kids

Makeup

I know I can’t tell you what it’s like to be gay. But I can tell you what it’s not. It’s not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.

Gay

Like Family

Mama

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.

Life

Mistake

People

I think many writers write because it’s a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the bullshit of our lives, and we make it into something that has a harmonious shape and sound.

Bullshit

Thinking

Writing

I think there are strands in all of our lives that can be seen if we step back to recognize them. Coincidence is probably as close as I’ll get to having spirituality. I do see patterns in my life sometimes, and I am thrilled by what I see. I don’t think I’m going to have any further shot at it after death, and I don’t think there’s anybody upstairs orchestrating it for me, but I do think it happens. If there are miracles in my life, they are rooted in the fact of coincidence.

Miracle

Spirituality

Thinking

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Addiction

Aggravation

America

Beautiful

Being In Love

Bits

Black

Breakup

Bullshit

Change

Children

Couple

Destination

Drug

Fake

Felt

Fifth

Fun

Gabriel

Gay

Ghost

Giving

Good Friend

Heart

Hopeless Romantic

Inspirational

Kids

Knees

Life

Like Family

Love

Love Is

Love You

Makeup

Males

Mama

Marriage

Men

Miracle

Mistake

Mother

My Friends

My Own

People

Pieces

Reason

Sloppiness

Solitude

Spirituality

Strong

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Quotes by Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

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.

I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.

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

I had been a storyteller by instinct all my life. I was that boring little kid who made the rest of his friends sit around the campfire and listen to his ghost stories. It’s been very much a part of my makeup.

I know I can’t tell you what it’s like to be gay. But I can tell you what it’s not. It’s not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.

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.

I think many writers write because it’s a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the bullshit of our lives, and we make it into something that has a harmonious shape and sound.

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