Keith Ablow Quotes

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

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Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

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What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?

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I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

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God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.

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Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger-frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

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Nothing overdone, nothing racy, which made her all the more alluring.

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Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

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But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

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People react predictably, especially when they don't have time to think.

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We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.

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The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.

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Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children… it is the reason that one human being’s intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.

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