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Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, is arguably one of the most widely loved characters in contem-porary fiction. Now, almost twenty years after ending his ground-breaking saga of San Francisco life, Maupin revisits his... read more
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“I have a gardener friend up in Sebastopol who likes to tell people that he has a mind like a steel trap - sometimes he has to gnaw his leg off to get away from it.”
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“A public display of affection - in the right place - can feel like public benediction”
Michael Tolliver
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“You don’t have to keep up, dear. You just have to keep open.”
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Some people think we finally become adults when both our parents have died; for me it happened when someone desired the person I’d become.
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“Have nothing in your houses,” William Morris decreed, “that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful,”
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(My biological family, that is—as opposed to my logical one—as Anna likes to put it.)
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he has a mind like a steel trap—sometimes he has to gnaw his leg off to get away from it.
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“What is it they say? The only difference between comedy and tragedy is where you end the story?”
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“You know. It’s mostly the un spoken things that always cause trouble later. They find their way out of us one way or the other.”
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“It’s good to be a tourist,” Anna said at last. “We joke about them, but it’s quite a worthwhile thing. To…appreciate…deliberately.”
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It’s much easier not to be threatened by your lover’s exes if you don’t want to fuck them yourself.
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My friend George felt stifled by his own limitations and made up his mind upon turning forty to eat pussy at the next available opportunity. It was not a success, he said, and the woman who had volunteered for this noble experiment had freshened up with a cinnamon douche, so George was left only with a lasting distaste for breakfast rolls. He worked as a ticket agent for Southwest, so the smell of warm Cinnebons wafting through an airport could undo him completely. Some things are better left alone, he said.
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First Sentence edit
Not long ago, down on Castro Street, a stranger in a Giants parka gave me a loaded glance as we passed each other in front of Cliff's Hardware.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 7 of 8 in Tales of the City. (standard series)
Preceded by Sure of You, and followed by Mary Ann in Autumn.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Armistead Maupin (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 0060761350
Page Count: 288
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 0060761350
Page Count: 288
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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- Armistead Maupin - Homepage: Author's website, including a great map of the World of 28 Barbary Lane.
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