"Why do I find the fantasy - husband,……" — Caroline Knapp
"Why do I find the fantasy - husband, family, kids - exhausting instead of alluring? Is there something wrong with me? Do I have a life?"
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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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Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.
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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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More Alluring Quotes
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The mind creates so many temptations - so alluring they are, so magnetic is their power - that unless you…
— Rajneesh
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Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your…
— Horace
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The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring…
— Albert Einstein
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One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful…
— Philip J. Davis
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The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.
— Beyonce Knowles
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Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and…
— Dwight Garner
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To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.
— Pierce Brosnan
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A good woman must constantly resist alluring and deceptive messages from many sources telling her that she is entitled to…
— Julie B. Beck
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Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they…
— Judith Wright
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I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to…
— Mikhail Lermontov
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The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent…
— Gautama Buddha
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