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Caroline Knapp quotes: When you love somebody, or something, it's amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.

When you love somebody, or something, it's amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.

Caroline Knapp quotes: 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.

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 quotes: All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to go.

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 quotes: Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

Caroline Knapp quotes: Dogs are fantasies that don't disappoint.

Dogs are fantasies that don't disappoint.

Caroline Knapp quotes: Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.

Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.

Caroline Knapp quotes: I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.

I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.

Caroline Knapp quotes: Why do I find the fantasy - husband, family, kids - exhausting instead of alluring? Is there something wrong with me? Do I have a life?

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 quotes: Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.

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

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

Caroline Knapp quotes: It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.

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 quotes: Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

Caroline Knapp quotes: Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

Caroline Knapp quotes: You're the nice, quiet alcoholic. The good intellectual alcoholic.

You're the nice, quiet alcoholic. The good intellectual alcoholic.

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

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

Caroline Knapp quotes: Time I wanted to explain the perils of growing

Time I wanted to explain the perils of growing

Caroline Knapp quotes: To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

Caroline Knapp quotes: Cats ... are like four-legged poster children for OCD.

Cats ... are like four-legged poster children for OCD.

Caroline Knapp quotes: 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.

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 quotes: You hide behind the professional persona all day; then you leave the office and hide behind the drink.

You hide behind the professional persona all day; then you leave the office and hide behind the drink.

Caroline Knapp quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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

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

Caroline Knapp quotes: When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

Caroline Knapp quotes: Insight," he said, "is almost always a rearrangement of fact.

Insight," he said, "is almost always a rearrangement of fact.

Caroline Knapp quotes: The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

Caroline Knapp quotes: 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.

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 quotes: For years, I ate the same foods every day, in exactly the same manner, at exactly the same times.

For years, I ate the same foods every day, in exactly the same manner, at exactly the same times.

Caroline Knapp quotes: Beneath my own witty, profession facade were oceans of fear, whole rivers of self-doubt.

Beneath my own witty, profession facade were oceans of fear, whole rivers of self-doubt.

Caroline Knapp quotes: You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures.'

You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures.'

Caroline Knapp quotes: Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.