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1 " It’s television, after all. No one is dead, even when they die. "
― Chris Campanioni , Death of Art
2 " The future is trash. Recycling it, re-arranging it. Making it beautiful again. "
3 " 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. In actuality, or in each reality, underneath it all—I mean, behind it—the answer lies in "
― Chris Campanioni , Going Down
4 " Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ... "
― Chris Campanioni , In Conversation
5 " 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. "
6 " I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist. "
7 " Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down. "
― Chris Campanioni
8 " To own beauty is the first lie of it. "
9 " The convenient function of every celebrated machine for living is to produce machines to live in them. "
― Chris Campanioni , Tourist Trap
10 " 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. "
11 " 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. "
12 " Live a life worth reading about. Then write it. "
13 " 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. "
14 " The mist after rain, uninterrupted rainfall on rooftops, pitter-patter intellect. The thoughts I leave behind like footsteps. "
15 " Nothing is more hip than a corpse. The style is timeless. Death is trending. "
16 " You can always feel the cool whisper of surveillance when the film hits your flesh, the eye of the camera or simply the camera eye . . . faces of passersby, clientele, unpaid extras change completely as soon as they’re no longer observed. "
― Chris Campanioni , Drift
17 " 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. "
18 " I want the reader to get the feeling that the text is trying to rearrange itself, upon every reading or in the act of reading. I don't want the presentation of narrative; I want a life told out of order. "
19 " 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. "
20 " I never was very good at acting. I never was very good at playing the role. Because the true pretending can only come off in our genuine awareness of the real. Only those of us with the most secure grasp on the real can pretend; can really be good at the performance. And of course I didn't know what was real; I only knew the camera was always on. "
