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It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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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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The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
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Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate and then if they go off and do something with someone else and both derive joy from it without any apparent harm to anyone else, the Church excommunicates them - that, to me, is bizarre.
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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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Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.
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When a church manipulates the law to say, These people are lesser, it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, I am not lesser! Some people can do it and some cannot and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.
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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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