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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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Hide me from day's garish eye.
— John Milton
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Slowly, gently, night unfurls its splendor.Grasp it; sense it - tremulous and tender.Turn your face away from the garish light of day,…
— Andrew Lloyd Webber
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I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical…
— Francis Lawrence
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Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.
— Paula Deen
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The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu…
— Daniel Hannan
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It’s like saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder: what appears to be beautiful today may not be judged beautiful…
— Peter M. Brant
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and…
— Caroline Knapp
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When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so…
— William Shakespeare
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That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt…
— Thomas Hardy
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But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to…
— Albert Camus
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The key to the city of Florence was about two feet long, and painted a garish gold. Hamilton was fascinated by it.…
— Gordon Korman
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