Jerzy Kosinski Quotes
31 Jerzy Kosinski quotes:
"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."
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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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"I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel."
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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."
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"Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life."
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"Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky."
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"I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me."
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"Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort."
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"There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital."
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"The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."
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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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"Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership."
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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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"A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life."
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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 do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them."
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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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"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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"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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"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."
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