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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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Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the…
— Julie Burchill
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The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and…
— Robert Maxwell
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I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd have 'Teen Beat' if I could,…
— Caroline Rhea
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Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!
— Dav Pilkey
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Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and…
— Dav Pilkey
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Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
— Anthony Hecht
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Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing,
— Alison Gopnik
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I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.
— Richard O'Brien
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I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs,…
— Susan Cain
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The kids all knew me from Wayne's World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies.
— Tia Carrere
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My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
— Enid Blyton
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father;…
— Immanuel Velikovsky
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