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I enjoy being around people who disagree with me and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.
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Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.
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My own view is simply that there are some very basic rules very simple rules that apply to all writing in a way, which is: don't lie if you're wrong, correct do not misrepresent and try and keep oneself intellectually honest - which means, as a writer, the very difficult task in public of admitting you were wrong.
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When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.
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The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.
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The middle part of the country - the great red zone that voted for Bush - is clearly ready for war. The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead - and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column.
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Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.
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Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.
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In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid.
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I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.
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The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.
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If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?
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The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.
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When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
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I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking.
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The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.
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What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.
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In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.
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I think sex is completely absurdly demonized in our culture. But in the end, however much sex you want to have, with however many people in how many ways, to be loved and to love is what human beings really want.
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What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.
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