Best 19 quotes of Chris Campanioni on MyQuotes

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

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.

Adiós. A Dios. To God. From God. De Dios. Dedos. My fingers waving. Good-bye.

But it was all nothing and that was the artistic expression: Nothing. And nothing can be art. And more than that, nothing is the best art.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Sometimes I feel as if I’m getting other people’s memories. Images I only recognize in dreams or TV, old films, faces I’ve never seen before and places I’ve never been . . . somebody’s switched the reel.

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.

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

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

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

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.

To own beauty is the first lie of it.

When we are hungry we eat our ghosts.