"What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage."

-- Gertrude Stein

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“If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.”
“I don't experience "emotions" then "analyze" them; they always reach me pre-analyzed.”
“If a young man gets married, and starts a family and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job, he is held up as an example of virtue and responsibility. The other type of man, living only for himself, working only for himself, doing first one thing and then another simply because he enjoys it and because he has to keep only himself, sleeping where and when he wants, and facing woman when he meets her on equal terms and not as one of a million slaves, is rejected by society. The free, unshackled man has no place in its midst.”
“I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it was obviously that I would write them, too.”
“Thou shalt not kill: the four most important, and yet, most ignored words in all religious teachings. There is not an asterisk next to that commandment saying, â€œUnless you walk on all four and have fur, feathers, horns, beaks or gills.”
“There is no fifth destination.”

Source : Armistead Maupin (2012). “Michael Tolliver Lives: Tales of the City 7”, p.144, Random House
“After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.”
“I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.”

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