Armistead Maupin
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"Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr." is an American writer, best known for his Tales of the City series of novels, set in San Francisco.

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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.

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.

I wish someone older than me and wiser than the people in Orlando had taken me aside.