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.
Armistead Maupin
Source: Wikipedia
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
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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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I wish someone older than me and wiser than the people in Orlando had taken me aside.
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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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Too much of a good thing is wonderful
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Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on
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Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear! Don't be so afraid to cry... Or laugh, for that matter. Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!
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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.
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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.
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I felt very close to God.. My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.
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Her apartment seemed fussier than ever, as if the doilies and tassels had taken to breeding in their unguarded moments.
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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.
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For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.
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