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(13 votes)   I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

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(10 votes)   Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

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(8 votes)   The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

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(8 votes)   The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

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(5 votes)   There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

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(179 votes)   Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we’re selling this deadly stuff anyway?

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(12 votes)   A finished person is a boring person.

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(12 votes)   The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?

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(11 votes)   I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.

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(10 votes)   I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

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(10 votes)   The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not.

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(9 votes)   America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

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(9 votes)   I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

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(9 votes)   I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

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(9 votes)   I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

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