Jerzy Kosinski Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Jerzy Kosinski Quotes and Sayings


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    A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    Take a look at the books other people have in their homes. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF
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    Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. Jerzy Kosinski | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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