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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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It's also one thing to see a celebrity or some kind of character on a TV show being gay. It's a totally different thing when you know your husband... not your husband, but your brother or your friend or the dude you hung out in high school was gay. I mean, that is what changes people's minds, what changes people's minds.
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I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.
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I think a lot of people are afraid the truth is in conflict with God. And are unable to let go and let the truth of the world.
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Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It's a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it's even more necessary to keep failing.
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Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who bombed Milosevic into submission? How about an explanation, Mr Moore?
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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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The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.
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I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.
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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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[Bush Hating] undermines the good faith necessary for democratic discussion. Which is a large part of what people like Al Franken are all about.
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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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No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.
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The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.
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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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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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The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore
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I think a blog to live really has to be probably four or five times a day.
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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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Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.
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Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.
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