Andrew Solomon Quotes About Language
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The experience of being depressed and emerging from depression made me understand the idea of a soul. I felt that the language in which one could best acknowledge that drew from faith.
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The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
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With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.
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And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons.
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