Torpor Quotes

“Because the world itself is now unfathomable, the only complexities that really count are small moments of domestic life that combine to trigger deep emotion. There is no longer any way of being poor in any interesting way in major cities like Manhattan”
― Chris Kraus, Torpor

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

“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

“Jerome doesn't have a clue. He in fact avoids the poets, with their petty feuds and righteous poverty. Endlessly competitive and introspective, they live in dumpy slum apartments and would knife each other for $5. Jerome prefers the painters and the film-makers who live in Soho and Tribeca. There's money there, at least the things they fight about are real.”
― Chris Kraus, Torpor