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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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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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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 you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
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...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.
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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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I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.
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I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.
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It is not an opinion that enhanced interrogation techniques are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.
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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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What's great about it is that you see, the great struggle for gay people is that the politics is just not going to work for us.
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The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.
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My father has been a rock for me every since.
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I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.
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It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.
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Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.
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When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, Then there's no hope for me, Mum.
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Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.
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I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself.
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I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.
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