Caroline Knapp
Caroline Knapp
Caroline Knappwas an American writer and columnist whose candid best-selling memoir Drinking: A Love Story recounted her 20-year battle with alcoholism. She was the daughter of noted psychiatrist Peter H. Knapp, who did groundbreaking research into psychosomatic medicine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth8 November 1959
CountryUnited States of America
mistake mean self
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 and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self.
spiritual real alcohol
To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.
lost merry concepts
Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.
degrees shy found
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.
years
For years, I ate the same foods every day, in exactly the same manner, at exactly the same times.
self solitude pace
I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.
children cat four
Cats ... are like four-legged poster children for OCD.
dog thinking healthy
I don't think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don't think that all relationships between dogs and their owners are good, healthy, or enriching.
dog falling-in-love attachment
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.
order psychics cake
Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.
communication culture levels
Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.
dog fantasy disappoint
Dogs are fantasies that don't disappoint.
friday dog new-york
My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;' Saturdays and Sundays are oriented around walks in the woods with the dog, human companion in tow some of the time but not always.
flaws willing
When you love somebody, or something, its amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.