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I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.
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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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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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It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.
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I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.
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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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Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.
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If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they seem to have been born and cut themselves off from the full realization of love, how can that be pleasing to God?
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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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In coming to an appreciation of the Mormon Church, one of the things that has been most compelling to me is the Mormon understanding of family, which extends beyond the general injunction to be fruitful and multiply, and addresses the permanence of love relationships into eternity, and embraces the sanctity of having children.
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Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.
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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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I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.
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Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.
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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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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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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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