Andrew Solomon Quotes

I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.

Andrew Solomon

• Life
• Done
• Proud
• Looks
• Life is
• Errors
• Plenty

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• Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

  

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• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

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• Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It's really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time.

  

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• Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

  

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• I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Life
  • Done
  • Proud