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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.

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.

Caroline Knapp

Order, Psychics, Cake

Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.

Caroline Knapp

Emotional, Void, Consumerism

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

Caroline Knapp

Things In Life, Mind, Clear

Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.101, Dial Press

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

Integrity, Pride, Passivity Is

Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.261, Dial Press

But then the wine came, one glass and then a second glass. And somewhere during that second drink, the switch was flipped. The wine gave me a melting feeling, a warm light sensation in my head, and I felt like safety itself had arrived in that glass, poured out from the bottle and allowed to spill out between us.

Caroline Knapp

Wine, Glasses, Light

Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.39, Dial Press