"Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and……" — Caroline Knapp
"Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so."
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56 Quotes by Caroline Knapp
Caroline Knapp has 56 quotes on this site.
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Alcoholism is the disease of more.
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I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly…
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Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you…
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It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I…
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Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious…
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When you love somebody, or something, its amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.
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Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as…
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The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws…
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So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that,…
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When I drank, the part that felt dangerous and needy grew bright and strong and real. The part that coveted…
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Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine…
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When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard…
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More Chaotic Quotes
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
— Karen Armstrong
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
— Chinua Achebe
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
— Walter Benjamin
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There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in…
— Anthony Bourdain
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If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.
— Jackie Chan
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of…
— Kate Chopin
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I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is…
— Deepak Chopra
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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and…
— Robert Frost
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You've been told that you're broken, that you're damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don't buy it. The…
— James Mattis
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Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great…
— Gerhard Richter
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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
— Albert Einstein
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Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely…
— Steven Weinberg
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