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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
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When a church manipulates the law to say, These people are lesser, it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, I am not lesser! Some people can do it and some cannot and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.
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If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children — more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter — I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.
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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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The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.
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It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.
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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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Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.
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You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.
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Being gay is immutable.
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Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.
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Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is much harder to treat in that way.
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I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
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Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.
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