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I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

Andrew Solomon

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
Author
Clinical Psychologist
Journalist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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If you don't want to have gay weddings in Mormon churches, that's fine. That's absolutely up to the members of the faith or the leadership of the faith. I would never suggest that the Mormon Church has to consecrate gay unions. But homosexuality runs at a fairly constant rate through all populations. There are many gay Mormons.
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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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Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.
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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 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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If someone says: I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture, he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.
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Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.
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It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.
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You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.
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Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.
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A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it.
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We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.
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At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?
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When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.
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If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
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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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There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural. And I think that's very misguided. It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles.
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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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The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.
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The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.
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