Caroline Knapp Quotes

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• Alcoholism is the disease of more.
• I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from her world: the…
• Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you -- and it was something…
• It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.
• Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined.…
• When you love somebody, or something, its amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.
• Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.
• Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised…
• The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and…
• So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand different…
• When I drank, the part that felt dangerous and needy grew bright and strong and real. The part that coveted love kicked into gear. The…
• Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.
• When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything else,…
• My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;' Saturdays and Sundays…
• On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an…
• For years, I ate the same foods every day, in exactly the same manner, at exactly the same times.
• Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.
• I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.
• I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.
• Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.

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