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Koren Zailckas

Koren Zailckas Books

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Koren Zailckas is an American writer known for her unique writing style and poignant storytelling. Born in 1980, she graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor's degree in English Literature. Her works often focus on personal experiences and emotional exploration, which have won her a large following among readers.

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“Even years from now, once I've stopped drinking, I will never stop trusting extremes. I will always believe that anything worth having is worth having in excess. The good things are worth hoarding until you have a cookie-fat ass, sex-aching loins, joy that fires through you like popping popcorn, or love, the weakness at the sight of some boy who makes your chest ache like indigestion. If it's good for you, it ought to be good for you in any amount, and you should track down every available bit of it. And if it's toxic, if it turns your liver into a hard little rock of scar tissue, or curls your memory at the edges like something burned in a fire, or makes your stomach flop, or your mind ache, or your personality contorted, you shouldn't buy into the bullshit about temperance.”

Too Much Extremes Excess Black And White Worth Moderation Passionate Life Extreme Too Much Of A Good Thing Excessiveness Hoard Too Little Lack Of Moderation

Book:Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

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“It doesn’t occur to me that alcohol might be unhinging me, that drinking at the rate I am can induce depression, impulsive behaviour, and symptoms of bipolar and borderline personality disorder.”

Depression Drinking Addiction Alcoholism Bipolar Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder

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“I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.”

Thinking I Can Self Helping Action Process Awareness Color Gratitude Down And Self Awareness Come Up Memoir Climbs

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“Like most women, I remember my first drink in tender minutiae.”

Firsts Remember Drink Drinking Alcoholism Minutiae

Book:Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

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“I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.”

Strong Emotion Failing Particular Grew Grew Up Argument Rage Scales Display Despised Strong Emotions

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“I have been a ballerina, a cheerleader and a sorority girl. I was the girliest girl alive.”

Has Beens Girl Alive Ballerina Cheerleader Sorority

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“I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.”

Thinking Stories Numbers Ears Statistics

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“I think for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.”

Thinking Humans Force Emotion Accepting Normal Human Emotions

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“I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.”

Littles Seems Heard Concepts Agree Extremes Alcohol Tonight Moderation

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“I’ve been thinking I’d like to be Daisy; I’d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me”

Thinking Years Whole Dream House Staring Daisies Whole Year Stop Dreaming Never Stop Dreaming

Book:Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

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“I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their four-year-old girls clasped to their pant legs and say, "Yeah, but studies say kids can buy drugs more easily than they can buy alcohol." To which I always respond, "I guess that means you keep heroin in your liquor cabinet?”

Years Mean Kids Girl Father Party Study Four Ignorance Drug Sick Yeah Legs Dinner Alcohol Four Years Funding Liquor Cabinets Heroin Dinner Party

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“But lately, when I’m drunk, I feel a hostility that I’ve never known before. It is a tension deep in my gut that makes me want to yell until my face is red, knock over glasses with the back of my hand, and kick people I don’t know in the shins.”

People Knows Want Feels Hands Faces Known Red Glasses Drunk Tension Kicks Guts Hostility

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“Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole, ill-equipped for the privilege of living.”

Whole Girl Gone Ill Privilege Tongue Cute Pens

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“Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished.”

Way Feels Born Half Drink Seeking Finished Circles Beloved Bottles Plato Incomplete Other Half

Book:Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

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“I am aware that somewhere along the line, I've subconsciously turned down the pitch of my speech, like a silencer of a gun that softens the sound of its firing. Now, even when I yell, I don't feel like I am using my full voice.”

Feels Sound Voice Lines Speech Gun Firing Turned Down

Book:Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

Source: Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

“I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.”

Writing Made Shows Feelings Felt Emotion Written Habit Profession Memoir Ambitious Discouraged Hail Cathartic Anesthesia Neurosurgeons

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“There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I don't like drum circles, public nudity or strangers touching my feet.”

Mind Energy Healing Feet Limits Yoga Stranger Warm Circles Touching Expansion Metaphysics Nudity Smack Energy Healing

Book:Fury: True Tales of a Good Girl Gone Ballistic

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“My demeanor isn't that of a woman enraged. To see me slumped, glassy-eyed, holding a sandwich someone has cut for me into four "manageable" pieces, a person might tell you I look much more like a woman subdued.”

Looks Persons Might Pieces Four Cutting Sandwiches Manageable Demeanor

Book:Fury: True Tales of a Good Girl Gone Ballistic

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“My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them.”

Emotion Patient Committed Queens My Boyfriend Ex Boyfriend Dispassionate Grimace

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“But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.”

Two College Concepts Abuse University Alcohol Alcohol Abuse Sweatshirts

Book:Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

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“For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like arranging words into harmony that sings back to me.”

Feels Writing Firsts School Keys Months Computer Harmony Piano Arranging

Book:Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

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“I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there.”

Knows Writing Ideas Felt My Own Memoir Uncomfortable Cracks Cathartic Anesthesia Neurosurgeons

Author:Koren Zailckas

About the Author

Born: 1980
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 22

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