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Depression means that you have no point of view.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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Clinical Psychologist
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I don't accept subtractive models of love, only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way we need species diversity to ensure that the planet can go on, so we need this diversity of affection and diversity of family in order to strengthen the ecosphere of kindness.
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Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.
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The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.
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Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.
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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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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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The thing that makes me really outraged, is the idea that the Mormon Church would presume to get involved in decisions that have little to do with Mormonism.
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Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.
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I believe very deeply that this beauty I call the soul is not a random occurrence. I don't know what its meaning is at some larger level, but I know that it has meaning.
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I understand why there would be prohibitions on straying from monogamy because of the harm that it does not only to the person who is betrayed, but also to the person who is betraying. Betray is a sort of shorthand for what happens.
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There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.
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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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Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.
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It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.
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