Jerzy Kosinski Quotes


31 quotes:

"Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time."
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"There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"Take a look at the books other people have in their homes."
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"Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort."
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"Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership."
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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."
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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."
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"In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel."
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"I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them."
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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."
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"I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art."
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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."
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