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Being gay is immutable.

Andrew Solomon

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
Author
Clinical Psychologist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Immutable
Gay

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There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures. The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.
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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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The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.
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I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.
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Every organization does good and bad things.
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I don't believe that there is anyone of faith whose faith would not be strengthened by those experiences of family.
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I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.
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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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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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Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.
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Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.
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One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.
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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.
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I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange.
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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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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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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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I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.
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A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.
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One has to weigh all of one's values always in relative terms. On the upside, you get people who are not acting on their homosexual attraction, who are avoiding the sin of practicing homosexuality. On the downside, you have destroyed marriages, traumatized children, and dead people who have taken their own lives.
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