"When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history."

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Source : Andrew Solomon (2012). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

Andrew Solomon

#Hero Quotes #Dragons Quotes #Conformity Quotes

“Everything Jumpy could do [in Valley of Violence] was too much. If I put it in the movie you would all check out. When he wraps himself up in the blanket, that's as far as I could go, and that's not even close. The dog's amazing.”
“I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay.Â I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn't the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, 'I'm different.' If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand.”

Source : "Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now". www.si.com. April 29, 2013.
“Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.”
“Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago.”
“In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.”
“I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
“I know this song!â€™ Rosie laughed. â€˜If you didnâ€™t, thatâ€™d be the final proof that youâ€™re from Mars.”
“Each wave of sightings adds to the accumulation of reports which defy analysis by present methods... An investigative process in depth is necessary here if, after twenty years of confusion, we want some answers.”

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