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Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Michael Sullivan (born 10 August 1963) is an English-born American author, editor, and blogger. Sullivan is a conservative political commentator, a former editor of The New Republic, and the author or editor of six books. He was a pioneer of the political blog, starting his in 2000. He eventually moved his blog to various publishing platforms, including Time, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and finally an independent subscription-based format. He announced his retirement from blogging in 2015. Sullivan has been a writer-at-large at New York since 2016.

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I believe that there are moments in sex that are so awesome that they actually reflect God.

Awesome, Believe, I Believe, Moments, Sex

The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.

Love You, Romantic Love, Love Is, Love, Lover, Pursuit

I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.

Americans, Gay, Obviously, Thinking, Two

If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.

Culture, Ifs, Follow, Change, Society

Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.

Gay, Homosexuality, Like, Weather

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.

Chaos, Disorder, Giving, Keep, Mean, War

I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

Believe, Conflict, God, Truth

[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

Magic, Politics, Wave, Somehow, Wisdom, 1980S

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.

Basic, Correct, Difficult, Lying, Mean, Writing

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.

Express, Iraq, Middle East, Space, Stuff

Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

Born, Generation, Generations, Heterosexual, Part

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

Daschle, Grief, Politics, Tom, Whining

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.

Conscience, Dirty, Journalism, Naughty, Secret, Telephone

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.

Eye, Politics, Conversation, Stuck, Hang, Love

For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.

Buffer, Distance, Love, Relationships, Romantic Love, Space

Some of this is unavailable to the male-female union: there is more likely to be greater understanding of the need for extramarital outlets between two men than between a man and a woman; and again, the lack of children gives gay couples greater freedom. Their failures entail fewer consequences for others. But something of the gay's relationship's necessary honesty, its flexibility, and its equality could undoubtedly help strengthen and inform many heterosexual bonds.

Children, Honesty, Couple, Understanding, Couples, Freedom

Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear; it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.

Fear, Hatred, Homophobia, Internalized

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.

Mind, Thinking, Writing, Years

I think essentially corrupting institutions in Washington are turning conservatism into something that is really very creepy, but also emotionally and psychically powerful for people.

Institutions, People, Powerful, Thinking, Washington

The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.

Entirely, Independent, Network, News, Social Network

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