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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.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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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 don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.
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