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I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.

Andrew Solomon

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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Clinical Psychologist
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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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It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.
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Being gay is immutable.
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I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on Mormons.
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I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
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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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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 understand why there would be prohibitions on straying from monogamy because of the harm that it does not only to the person who is betrayed, but also to the person who is betraying. Betray is a sort of shorthand for what happens.
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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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Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.
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Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.
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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'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.
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