Chris Kraus Quotes

“Better, perhaps, to dress like a whore around the clock and thus achieve a fully integrated personality.”
― Chris Kraus, Torpor

“Because she does not express herself in theoretical language, no one expects too much from her and she is used to tripping out on layers of complexity in total silence.”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

“Chris informs Sylvère that the flirtatious behavior she shared with Dick the previous night amounts to a “Conceptual Fuck” (21). Because Sylvère and Chris are no longer having sex, Kraus tells us, “the two maintain their intimacy via deconstruction: i.e. they tell each other everything” (21). Chris tells Sylvère that Dick’s disappearance invests the flirtation “with a subcultural subtext she and Dick both share: she’s reminded of all the fuzzy one-time fucks she’s had with men who’re out the door before her eyes are open”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

“Anyway we told him Liza’d do the physical part of sex, I’d do the verbal. Together we incarnated the cyborgian split projected on all females by this culture”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

“Jerome described her as a waitress-translator, and Sylvie wondered why the women always have these hyphenated jobs? The men are all philosophers, artists, filmmakers."

Kraus, Chris. Torpor (S.182)”
― Chris Kraus, Torpor

“But intersubjectivity in the text occurs through intertextuality, when distinctions between original and citation become blurred.”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

“Fuck her once, she’ll write a book about it”
― Chris Kraus

“continually exposing myself to whatever situation occurs… Gambling as well as gamboling… To exist instead of being an existentialist, to make objects instead of being one”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

“Passion becomes tenderness, tenderness turns soft. Sex collapses into a warm intimacy. We could spend months without, and whenever we did it became short and interrupted”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

“Every question, once it’s formulated,” she writes, “contains its own internal truth. We have to stop diverting ourselves with false questions”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

“Visions of you vision of me
Things to do things to see
This’s my way to cut it up
You better wait a minute honey
Better add it up”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

“Qui Servum Magnum - He Who Serves Greatest.”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

“I thought its problem was the same problem many Jews have in wanting to “place” the Holocaust, to find some meaning or redemption. An end to rootless cosmopolitanism.”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

“It returned suddenly about a week ago—the spirit of sex, like one of these little Roman gods, touching every part of my body, arousing them to the sacredness of pleasure. As if the veil was lifted and a new field of human possibility revealed.”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

“Down the road from Baker’s there’s Chuck and Brenda. I loved Brenda, she was my Hick Correlative—a manic depressive chain talker who threw her energy into buying up distressed slum houses. Chuck, an otherwise unemployable alcoholic, renovated them.”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick