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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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Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This…
— William Graham Sumner
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Let a person only approach his or her own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to…
— Caroline Knapp
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A very real barrier to faith is this feeling of self-sufficiency, this unrealistic idea that one can accomplish everything by his or…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who…
— Colum McCann
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Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he…
— Steve Martin
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What I find powerful is a person with the confidence to be her own self.
— Oprah Winfrey
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Every woman has, for her own self-esteem, to work or have a major interest.
— Amanda Eliasch
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