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Every organization does good and bad things.

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
Author
Clinical Psychologist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
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My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.
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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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Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.
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Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.
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Despair is part of love.
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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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There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.
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We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you are evil and bad. Anything that even implies such a stance is profoundly toxic.
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I really feel that the Church leaders have blood on their hands. I feel that there are gay Mormons who have committed suicide or whose lives have been destroyed because of the attitude of the Church.
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People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.
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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 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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Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.
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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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Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.
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Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.
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It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.
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Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.
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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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The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.
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