"When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975 that the American Psychiatric Association took homosexuality off the list of mental illnesses - and in many states, including the state of North Carolina where I grew up, homosexuality was a crime. An arrestable crime. It still is, in many parts of the world."

-- Armistead Maupin

#Writing Quotes #Years Quotes #Cities Quotes

“I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.”
“When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle class. And if your name is on your shirt, you're poor.”
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
“The entire hierarchy of angels can best be described as an endlessly vast sphere of beings, who surround an unknowable centre-point, which is called God.”
“Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.”
“It is only too clear that man is not at home in this universe, and yet he is not good enough to deserve a better.”

Source : "The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century".
“I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.”
“If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world events. And so a film challenging his legacy, a film that assesses charges that are quite grave against him, is something that is touchy for the media to show.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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