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I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.

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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
Vaguely
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Jewish
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Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.
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When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.
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Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come.
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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!
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I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally been perpetrated in the name of Christian faith.
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I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand
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I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I didn't know why. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work. The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.
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I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.
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Every organization does good and bad things.
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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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With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.
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Depression means that you have no point of view.
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The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.
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The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.
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If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children — more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter — I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.
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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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