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Life is enriched by difficulty love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

Andrew Solomon

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
Author
Clinical Psychologist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Love
Life
Enriched
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Exertion
Requires
Difficulty
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I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay people, and the lives of those gay people will be better.
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Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.
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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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I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.
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Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.
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The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.
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