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Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.
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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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There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.
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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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Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.
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Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
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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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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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The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.
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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 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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I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange.
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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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We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.
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Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.
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I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.
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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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