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Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.
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The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.
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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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There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures. The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.
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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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I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.
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At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?
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Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.
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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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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.
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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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Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.
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There is no question that abuse, drugs and exposure to violence at home can exacerbate someone's criminal tendencies enormously. But there are many, many criminals who don't come from that background.
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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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I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.
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