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A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

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
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Love
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Recover
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Humor
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I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.
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I don't believe that there is anyone of faith whose faith would not be strengthened by those experiences of family.
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Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, Never real and always true, and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.
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I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew up thinking that it would make me marginal, prevent me from having children, and quite possibly prevent me from having a meaningful long relationship. It seemed that this condition would leave me with a vastly reduced life.
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The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.
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Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.
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When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.
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Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.
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Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family.
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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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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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I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.
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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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