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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: 60
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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I feel, as a matter nearly of faith, that if you have known a certain amount of suffering and have emerged out of it into the light, you are obliged to share that light with as many of the still-beleaguered as possible.
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I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.
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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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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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Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.
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I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally been perpetrated in the name of Christian faith.
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I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.
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My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.
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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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I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.
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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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The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.
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I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.
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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 can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand
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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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Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.
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Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be give me peace and let me do the work of my life. I will never forget you.' Something about that incantation was particularly appealing to me. 'I will never forget you'-- as though one had to address the pride of the spirits, as though one wanted them to feel good about being exorcised.
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