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Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.
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I really feel that the Church leaders have blood on their hands. I feel that there are gay Mormons who have committed suicide or whose lives have been destroyed because of the attitude of the Church.
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I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.
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It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.
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If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they seem to have been born and cut themselves off from the full realization of love, how can that be pleasing to God?
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I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.
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I think what the Church should ideally do, and does appear to do in the context of straight relationships, is to support people in crossing from the easier pleasure of momentary carnal satisfaction, into the more difficult pleasure of love and family and relationship.
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I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.
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Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.
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I would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If, on the other hand, I had a deaf child, it would help that I have developed a real admiration for Deaf culture.
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If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
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Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.
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There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural. And I think that's very misguided. It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles.
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In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest of the world is not only a luxury, in the way that travel is, but actually a moral responsibility.
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We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.
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I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.
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The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.
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I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
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Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.
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I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
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