211 Quotes by Dan Savage


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    We all have our scars. That's what falling is love is all about: revealing your scars to somebody who then loves you anyway.

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    Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.

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    For me, my discomfort with gay weddings was articulated by a close friend, who observed that gay people getting married is like retarded people getting together to give each other PhDs. It doesn't make them smarter, and it doesn't make us married.

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    Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.

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    Take me to the driest county in the most conservative state, and in two hours this determined hedonist will find you all the drugs, whores, and booze you'll need to pass an eventful weekend.

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    I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.

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    The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

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