Top 60 Caroline Knapp Quotes (2024 Update)
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Caroline Knapp Quote: “That was my favorite line: I’ll drink less when things get better.”

51. “That was my favorite line: I’ll drink less when things get better.”

— Caroline Knapp

Caroline Knapp Quote: “And it does, at least for a little while. It melts down the pieces of us that hurt or feel distress; it makes room for some other self to emerge, a version that’s new and improved and decidedly less conflicted. And after a while it becomes central to the development of that version, as integral to forward motion as the accelerator on a car. Without the drink you are version A. With the drink, version B. And you can’t get from A to B without the right equipment.”

52. “And it does, at least for a little while. It melts down the pieces of us that hurt or feel distress; it makes room for some other self to emerge, a version that’s new and improved and decidedly less conflicted. And after a while it becomes central to the development of that version, as integral to forward motion as the accelerator on a car. Without the drink you are version A. With the drink, version B. And you can’t get from A to B without the right equipment.”

— Caroline Knapp

Caroline Knapp Quote: “In between, for five or ten minutes at a stretch, the real version, tense and dishonest and uncertain. I rarely allowed her to emerge for long. Work – all that productive, effective, focused work – kept her distracted and submerged all day. And drink – anesthetizing and constant – kept her too numb to feel at night.”

53. “In between, for five or ten minutes at a stretch, the real version, tense and dishonest and uncertain. I rarely allowed her to emerge for long. Work – all that productive, effective, focused work – kept her distracted and submerged all day. And drink – anesthetizing and constant – kept her too numb to feel at night.”

— Caroline Knapp

Caroline Knapp Quote: “Things – identifiable objects, products, goals with clear labels and price tags, men you’ve known for five minutes – make such a handy repository for hungers, such an easy mask for other desires, and such a ready cure for the feelings of edgy discontent that emerge when other desires are either thwarted or unnamed.”

54. “Things – identifiable objects, products, goals with clear labels and price tags, men you’ve known for five minutes – make such a handy repository for hungers, such an easy mask for other desires, and such a ready cure for the feelings of edgy discontent that emerge when other desires are either thwarted or unnamed.”

— Caroline Knapp

Caroline Knapp Quote: “At heart alcoholism feels like the accumulation of dozens of such connections, dozens of tiny fears and hungers and rages, dozens of experiences and memories that collect in the bottom of your soul, coalescing over many many many drinks into a single liquid solution.”

55. “At heart alcoholism feels like the accumulation of dozens of such connections, dozens of tiny fears and hungers and rages, dozens of experiences and memories that collect in the bottom of your soul, coalescing over many many many drinks into a single liquid solution.”

— Caroline Knapp

Caroline Knapp Quote: “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. Life without Lucille? Unfathomable, to contemplate how quiet and still my home would be, and how much less laughter there’d be, and how unanchored I’d feel without her presence, the simple constancy of it.”

56. “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. Life without Lucille? Unfathomable, to contemplate how quiet and still my home would be, and how much less laughter there’d be, and how unanchored I’d feel without her presence, the simple constancy of it.”

— Caroline Knapp

Caroline Knapp Quote: “Recovering alcoholics often talk about drinking “the way they wanted to” when they were alone, drinking without the feeling of social restraint they might have had at a party or in a restaurant. There’s something almost childlike about the need, and about the language we use to describe it: wanting our bottles, wanting to crawl into that dark room in our minds and curl up and be alone with our object of security.”

57. “Recovering alcoholics often talk about drinking “the way they wanted to” when they were alone, drinking without the feeling of social restraint they might have had at a party or in a restaurant. There’s something almost childlike about the need, and about the language we use to describe it: wanting our bottles, wanting to crawl into that dark room in our minds and curl up and be alone with our object of security.”

— Caroline Knapp

Caroline Knapp Quote: “Noting that adolescence is the time in a girl’s life when she realizes that men have all the power and that hers can come only from consenting to become a submissive, adored object, she wrote: “Girls stop being and stop seeing.”

58. “Noting that adolescence is the time in a girl’s life when she realizes that men have all the power and that hers can come only from consenting to become a submissive, adored object, she wrote: “Girls stop being and stop seeing.”

— Caroline Knapp

Caroline Knapp Quote: “Liquor creates delusion. It can make your life feel full of risk and adventure, sparkling and dynamic as a rough sea under sunlight. A single drink can make you feel unstoppable, masterful, capable of solving problems that overwhelmed you just five minutes before. In fact, the opposite is true: drinking brings your life to a standstill, makes it static as rock over time.”

59. “Liquor creates delusion. It can make your life feel full of risk and adventure, sparkling and dynamic as a rough sea under sunlight. A single drink can make you feel unstoppable, masterful, capable of solving problems that overwhelmed you just five minutes before. In fact, the opposite is true: drinking brings your life to a standstill, makes it static as rock over time.”

— Caroline Knapp

Caroline Knapp Quote: “I drank when I was happy and I drank when I was anxious and I drank when I was bored and I drank when I was depressed, which was often.”

60. “I drank when I was happy and I drank when I was anxious and I drank when I was bored and I drank when I was depressed, which was often.”

— Caroline Knapp

Caroline Knapp Quote: “But isn’t this what Americans do best, the pursuit of happiness reconfigured as the pursuit of stuff, the diet, the toys, the boys, the magic bullet.”

61. “But isn’t this what Americans do best, the pursuit of happiness reconfigured as the pursuit of stuff, the diet, the toys, the boys, the magic bullet.”

— Caroline Knapp

Caroline Knapp Quote: “Where are the lines between satisfaction and excess, between restraint and indulgence, between pleasure and self-destruction? And why are they so difficult to find, particularly for women?”

62. “Where are the lines between satisfaction and excess, between restraint and indulgence, between pleasure and self-destruction? And why are they so difficult to find, particularly for women?”

— Caroline Knapp

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