Caroline Knapp Quotes - Page 3

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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 can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.

  Caroline Knapp

  Coffee, Solitude, Milk

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• Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.

  Caroline Knapp

  Land, Recluse, Walks

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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 into gear. The yes grew louder than the no.

  Caroline Knapp

  Strong, Real, Alcohol

  Caroline Knapp (1996). “Drinking: A Love Story”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.

  Caroline Knapp

  Smooth, Chaotic, Secretive

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.11, Dial Press

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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 make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.

  Caroline Knapp

  Self, Order, Narrators

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• The key, I suppose, has less to do with insight than with willingness, the former being relatively useless without the latter.

  Caroline Knapp

  Keys, Useless, Latter

  Caroline Knapp (2004). “Appetites: Why Women Want”, p.191, Counterpoint Press

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