"People … don't want to be cured or……" — Andrew Solomon

"People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be."

— Andrew Solomon

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60 Quotes by Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon has 60 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my…
Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond…
Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical…
I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of…
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.…
It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible…
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You…
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history.…
Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference…
Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts…
The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not…
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the…

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As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed. — Bashar al-Assad
I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere… — David Attenborough
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine
Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about… — Paul Auster
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. — Richard Bach
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our… — James A. Baldwin
I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month… — Bryan Adams
I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a… — Russell Banks
I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet. — Travis Barker
I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a… — Travis Barker
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. — Mary Catherine Bateson

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