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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, it's not that I think that being gay is the most amazing, wonderful thing in the world, but I have a husband; I have a life; I have friends who I've met through this. It's who I am.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the language of illness, you can use it to describe race - you could experience race as an illness. You can experience income level, at many different levels, as a form of illness. You can experience age as an illness. I mean, it's all got an illness component.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents' usual reprimand was to remind me that I was not the Prince of Wales.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way I seem to be able to keep going while I'm writing is to munch my way through boxes of chocolates.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I like the grandness and pretention of it.
- Perfectionists
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a mental illness for nearly half my life, and I can no longer imagine myself without it. It seems less like something that happened to me than like part of who I am; some days, it is the thing about me, but it is always at least a thing about me.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing 'The Noonday Demon' turned me into a professional depressive, which is a weird thing to be. A class at the university I attended assigns the book and invited me to be a guest lecturer.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm not depressed, I draw strength and beauty from depression; when I am depressed, I find no such things.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loathe having a fragile brain and knowing as I make any plan that I should provide for the possibility that my mind may betray me at short notice.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a little kid in the late 1960s, I was afraid of the world. Even if I didn't get caught in the draft that was sending American teenagers to Vietnam, there was always the possibility of a Soviet nuclear attack. I made constant escape plans and imagined a life going from port to port.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fortunately for me, my mother loved travel. Our first non-beach family trip abroad - to England, France, and Switzerland - came when I was 11, and thereafter, we often tagged along on my father's European business trips.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Travel is an exercise partly in broadening yourself and partly in defining your own limits.
- Citizenry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may be as important as encouraging school attendance, environmental conservation, or national thrift. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
We think that fear must be played out in fight, with military intervention, or in flight, via isolationism - but we are not hunted game, and those are not the only options. There is also the possibility of acceptance, with its corollary of understanding and its ultimate manifestation in embracing.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020