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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!
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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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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Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must have the intellectual ability to see how bad things are and the emotional ability to look forward with hope. It's a hard combination to sustain, but if you can do it, you can change the world.
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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 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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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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It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.
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Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is much harder to treat in that way.
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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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I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.
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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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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 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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Being gay is immutable.
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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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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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The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad and also deeply bewildering.
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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 would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If, on the other hand, I had a deaf child, it would help that I have developed a real admiration for Deaf culture.
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The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.
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Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.
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