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When you love somebody, or something, it's amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.
— Caroline Knapp
Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.
— Caroline Knapp
All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to go.
— Caroline Knapp
Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.
— Caroline Knapp
Dogs are fantasies that don't disappoint.
— Caroline Knapp
Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.
— Caroline Knapp
I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.
— 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?
— Caroline Knapp
Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.
— Caroline Knapp
Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.'
— Caroline Knapp
It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.
— Caroline Knapp
Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.
— Caroline Knapp
Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.
— Caroline Knapp
You're the nice, quiet alcoholic. The good intellectual alcoholic.
— Caroline Knapp
The key, I suppose, has less to do with insight than with willingness, the former being relatively useless without the latter.
— Caroline Knapp
Time I wanted to explain the perils of growing
— Caroline Knapp
To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.
— Caroline Knapp
Cats ... are like four-legged poster children for OCD.
— Caroline Knapp
I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.
— Caroline Knapp
You hide behind the professional persona all day; then you leave the office and hide behind the drink.
— Caroline Knapp
When you hear nothing about the body, he suggests, you stop listening to it, and feeling it; you stop experiencing it as a worthy, integrated entity.
— Caroline Knapp
Your needs are overwhelming? You can't depend on yourself or others to meet them? You don't even know what they are? Then need nothing.
— Caroline Knapp
Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.
— Caroline Knapp
When you quit drinking you stop waiting.
— Caroline Knapp
Insight," he said, "is almost always a rearrangement of fact.
— Caroline Knapp
The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.
— Caroline Knapp
Of course, the problem with self-transformation is that after a while, you don't know which version of yourself to believe in, which one is true.
— Caroline Knapp
For years, I ate the same foods every day, in exactly the same manner, at exactly the same times.
— Caroline Knapp
Beneath my own witty, profession facade were oceans of fear, whole rivers of self-doubt.
— Caroline Knapp