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Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life's little horrors begin.

~Caroline Knapp

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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.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Around Because Began Begun Beneath Change Come Communication Culture Differently Early Eighties Fast Furious Had Hit Image Images Immediate Intellect Levels Mode Primary Radical Radical Change Starving Text Than Time Visual Way Words Work You

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Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and the reaction is hard to counter.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Along Blow Buildings Counter Effects Hard Intended Literally Morale Our Reaction Strength Surely Terrorism Up Will

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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

Topics: Allow Certain Certain Degree Definition Degree Demands Engage Events Fully Her Herself Inform Introspection Known Make Memoir Narrator Order Own Reader Self-Awareness She

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

~Caroline Knapp

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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

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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

Topics: Alone Another Being Broad Coffee Consists Conversation Day End Entire Extreme Five Hello Human Human Being Large Lean Live Local Milk Much Only Pass Please Solitude Sometimes Spectrum Starbucks Toward Uttered Well Without Words Work I Can

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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

Topics: Alluring Exhausting Family Fantasy Find Husband Instead Kids Life Me Something Why Wrong

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

~Caroline Knapp

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I eat breakfast pretty much 'round the clock - muffins in the morning, scones for lunch, cereal at night - which may be odd but is also oddly satisfying, if only because the choice is my own.

~Caroline Knapp

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 8th, 1959

Died: June 3rd, 2002

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