Caroline Knapp

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When you quit drinking you stop waiting

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

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Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised or incomplete—is the constant on the continuum of hunger, it's what links the anorexic to the garden-variety dieter, it's the persistent pulse of need and yearning behind the reach for food, for sex, for something

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

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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