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Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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Clinical Psychologist
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New York City
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Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.
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The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.
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I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.
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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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The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.
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The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad and also deeply bewildering.
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In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest of the world is not only a luxury, in the way that travel is, but actually a moral responsibility.
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Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate and then if they go off and do something with someone else and both derive joy from it without any apparent harm to anyone else, the Church excommunicates them - that, to me, is bizarre.
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Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.
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I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.
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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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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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The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
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