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It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
Author
Clinical Psychologist
Journalist
Novelist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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I don't accept subtractive models of love, only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way we need species diversity to ensure that the planet can go on, so we need this diversity of affection and diversity of family in order to strengthen the ecosphere of kindness.
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Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.
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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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There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural. And I think that's very misguided. It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles.
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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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Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.
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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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I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.
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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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The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
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I spent years thinking I had to make a choice between being true to myself and being with a man and not having a family, and trying to live something of a lie and being with a woman and having children.
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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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I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.
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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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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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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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There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.
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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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All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.
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It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.
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