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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.

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
Listen
Worth
Living
Even
Believe
Love
People

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The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
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The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.
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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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We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like 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 believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
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I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I didn't know why. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work. The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.
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I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides.
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Depression means that you have no point of view.
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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 know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.
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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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Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate and then if they go off and do something with someone else and both derive joy from it without any apparent harm to anyone else, the Church excommunicates them - that, to me, is bizarre.
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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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I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn’t lead, their jobs I couldn’t do - overpowered even by jobs I would never want or need to do.
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People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.
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When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.
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I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
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