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About Andrew Solomon
American writer on politics, culture and psychology
Andrew Solomon is an American writer on politics, culture and psychology. He has 93 quotes on the site and has written widely across major magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, and Travel and Leisure. His work ranges across subjects such as depression, Soviet artists, the cultural rebirth of Afghanistan, Libyan politics, and deaf culture. That breadth gives his writing a distinctly public and reflective character, moving between personal and political life, culture, and mental health.
More from Andrew Solomon (93 quotes) →Keep reading Andrew Solomon
- “People who are different are constantly dealing with families who don't understand them.”Andrew Solomon
- “Forging meaning is about changing yourself. Building identity is about changing the world.”Andrew Solomon
- “Depression is so exhausting - it takes up so much of your time and energy - and silence about it, it really d…”Andrew Solomon
- “People with family histories of alcoholism tend to have lower levels of endorphins- the endogenous morphine t…”Andrew Solomon
Losing: more sayings
- “The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.”Drew Carey
- “I think what I have learned is you can't avoid losing. You're going to strike out a million times. The whole…”Chris Gethard
- “What we perceive as dejection over the futility of life is sometimes greed, which the monastic tradition perc…”Kathleen Norris
Grief: more sayings
- “We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible t…”Richard Eyre
- “I am not sad anymore. I am not weak or tender or quiet like you remember because the second you said those wo…”Charlotte Eriksson
- “There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.”David LaChapelle
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Books by Andrew Solomon
The Noonday Demon
2001
Far From the Tree
2012