CCChris Campanioni

15 collected words

Chris Campanioni

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

It’s television, after all. No one is dead, even when they die.

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02Undated

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

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03Undated

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

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04Undated

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

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05Undated

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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06Undated

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

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07Undated

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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08Undated

To own beauty is the first lie of it.

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09Undated

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

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10Undated

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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11Undated

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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12Undated

Live a life worth reading about. Then write it.

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13Undated

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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14Undated

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

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15Undated

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

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