--- title: "1 Kind Story Quotes By Chris Kraus" description: "1 Kind Story quotes by Chris Kraus. Plus more from Chris Kraus and more Kind Story sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2d/chris-kraus-11419_expectations-of-wome_it-was-the-kind-of-story-everybody-likes_2764545.jpg" --- > [“It was the kind of story everybody likes, about a tough girl who becomes a truer version of herself by uncovering her vulnerability. It was the kind of story people like because its universe is played out in the story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-kraus/it-was-the-kind-of-story-everybody-likes-about-a-tough-girl-who/) [Chris Kraus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-kraus/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2d/chris-kraus-11419_expectations-of-wome_it-was-the-kind-of-story-everybody-likes_2764545.jpg) ## More by Chris Kraus > [Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-kraus/why-does-everybody-think-that-women-are-debasing-themselves-when-we/) [Chris Kraus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-kraus/) > [Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-kraus/because-i-m-moved-in-writing-to-be-irrepressible-writing-to-you-seems/) [Chris Kraus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-kraus/) > [“Back to the 1st Person: I'd even made up art theories about my inability to use it. That I'd chosen film and theater, two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-kraus/back-to-the-1st-person-i-d-even-made-up-art-theories-about-my/) [Chris Kraus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-kraus/) > [“We're touched by the nostalgia, seeing Walter at the center of our extended European family but our smarter selves find greater satisfaction knowing history…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-kraus/we-re-touched-by-the-nostalgia-seeing-walter-at-the-center-of-our/) [Chris Kraus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-kraus/) > [Why do people think that we’re degraded when we’re examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-kraus/why-do-people-think-that-we-re-degraded-when-we-re-examining/) [Chris Kraus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-kraus/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-kraus/jerome-doesn-t-have-a-clue-he-in-fact-avoids-the-poets-with-their/) [Chris Kraus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-kraus/) > [“It occurred to me that I was suffering from the dizziness of contradictions: the only pleasure that remains once you've decided you know better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-kraus/it-occurred-to-me-that-i-was-suffering-from-the-dizziness-of/) [Chris Kraus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-kraus/) > [“We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like you can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-kraus/we-suicide-ourselves-for-our-own-survival-is-there-any-hope-of/) [Chris Kraus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-kraus/) > [“No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-kraus/no-woman-is-an-island-ess-we-fall-in-love-in-hope-of-anchoring/) [Chris Kraus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-kraus/) > [“Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our own debasement? Why do women always have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-kraus/why-does-everybody-think-that-women-are-debasing-themselves-when-we-2/) [Chris Kraus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-kraus/) > [“What's the matter?" you asked, seizing an idea. "Did I burst your balloon - destroy the fantasy?" I struggled for a way to answer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-kraus/what-s-the-matter-you-asked-seizing-an-idea-did-i-burst-your-balloon/) [Chris Kraus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-kraus/) > [No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-kraus/no-one-can-live-in-this-heightened-state-of-reflective-receptivity/) [Chris Kraus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-kraus/) > [“Isn't the greatest freedom in the world the freedom to be wrong? What hooks me on our story is our different readings of it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-kraus/isn-t-the-greatest-freedom-in-the-world-the-freedom-to-be-wrong-what/) [Chris Kraus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-kraus/) > [“But since Catt was more realist than fabulist, she understood her actual death at the hands of her killer would be something much slower.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-kraus/but-since-catt-was-more-realist-than-fabulist-she-understood-her/) [Chris Kraus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-kraus/) > [“Female monsters take things as personally as they really are. They study facts. Even if rejection makes them feel like the girl who's not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-kraus/female-monsters-take-things-as-personally-as-they-really-are-they/) [Chris Kraus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-kraus/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kind-story/chris-kraus/#itemlist", "name": "1 Kind Story Quotes By Chris Kraus", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It was the kind of story everybody likes, about a tough girl who becomes a truer version of herself by uncovering her vulnerability. It was the kind of story people like because its universe is played out in the story of one person. 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