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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.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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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 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 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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I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay people, and the lives of those gay people will be better.
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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 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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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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