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I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.

Andrew Solomon

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
Author
Clinical Psychologist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Believer
Huge
Science
Everything
Think
Thinking
Explains

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I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
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I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides.
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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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There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.
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Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.
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The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.
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I would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If, on the other hand, I had a deaf child, it would help that I have developed a real admiration for Deaf culture.
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If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it.
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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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The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.
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When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.
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