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Logical Family: A Memoir – An Unflinching, Inspiring Chronicle of Gay Rights from Conservative Roots to San Francisco by Armistead Maupin

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I felt only this shapeless longing, an oddly grown-up ennui born of alienation and silence. Some children experience this feeling very early on, long before we learn its name and finally let our headstrong hearts lead the way to True North.

The Life Impossible

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“The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anais Nin

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“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

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“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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