Chris Campanioni Quotes

#1. Live a life worth reading about. Then write it.

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#2. To own beauty is the first lie of it.

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#3. The mist after rain, uninterrupted rainfall on rooftops, pitter-patter intellect. The thoughts I leave behind like footsteps.

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#4. To be a writer and political is a dangerous thing. To be a writer and apolitical is even more dangerous. Art is right, left; in truth, it has only one direction and that is forward.

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#5. It's television, after all. No one is dead, even when they die.

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#6. It's not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be.

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#7. The future is trash. Recycling it, re-arranging it. Making it beautiful again.

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#8. Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I'm not lonely, if that's what it seems like. Always writing things down.

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#9. I wrote a trilogy out of order and then rearranged it, because the whole of life is like that
a cut-up
and when you cut into the present, the future leaks out.

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#10. In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.

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#11. I walk by, seeing myself walk by on a bag, someone's hands gripping the paper handles above my neck, my curved waist, my gleam of sweat, me, half a block away, and think, you don't know self-fragmentation until it's staring you in the face.

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#12. I couldn't decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.

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#13. Tangerine tango was still in. Cardigans without buttons were in. Bahia bands were in. Senhor do Bonfim. Make a wish? But hardly anyone considered the most radical move: be yourself. Beauty is always a revolutionary act.

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#14. Half of life is pretending. The other half is pretending.

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#15. Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...

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#16. Nothing is more hip than a corpse. The style is timeless. Death is trending.

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#17. The whole world had become a stage, in which the props were continually shifting, four extras reprising the roles of twenty-four characters and people I'd never seen before playing my most beloved ones.

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#18. The convenient function of every celebrated machine for living is to produce machines to live in them.

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