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Caroline Knapp has 56 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 missing from…
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Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you -- and…
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It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to…
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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 and pervasive…
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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 a recipient…
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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 and limitations…
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So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in…
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When I drank, the part that felt dangerous and needy grew bright and strong and real. The part that coveted love kicked…
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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 living any…
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It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first…
— Dorothy Parker
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It's said that I went into a rant, but I think it went on for about five words. I was drunk. It…
— Mel Gibson
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When I see someone in a military uniform I make it a point to approach them, shake their hand and say five…
— Mark Burnett
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Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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It is better to preach five words of God’s Word than five million words of man’s wisdom.
— Charles Spurgeon
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On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I…
— Caroline Knapp
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We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading…
— John Gardner
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
— Dorothy Parker
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He kissed each finger, and with each one of them spoken a word. Five kisses, five words. His last.
— Cassandra Clare
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Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.
— Neil Gaiman
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A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what…
— MAYMA
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