The best Quotes by Armistead Maupin

The best Quotes by Armistead Maupin

Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr. (born May 13, 1944) is an American writer notable for Tales of the City, a series of novels set in San Francisco.

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

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

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.

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

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San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

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Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

Anthony Bourdain

Congratulations, San Francisco, you've ruined pizza. First the Hawaiians, and now you.

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I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nation's capital.

Washington, D.C.

The Washington Bullets are changing their name. They don't want their team to be associated with crime. From now on, they'll just be known as the Bullets.

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Robert Orben

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Washington, D.C.

I call Washington "the city of the perishable".

Nancy Pelosi (as Speaker of the US House of Representatives)

Washington, D.C.

Let me give you a little bit of free advice. DC is all about realtionships.

Kimble Hookstraten in Designated Survivor - Season 1 Episode 9

Washington, D.C.

Alex: "You can't do that. You can't make promises that you won't be able to keep!"
Tom: "We're in Washington, they're the only promises we're allowed to make."

Thomas Adam Kirkman in Designated Survivor - Season 1 Episode 1

Washington, D.C.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog!

Harry S. Truman

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Washington, D.C. is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

Dennis Miller

Washington, D.C.Wisconsin

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

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There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

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