Jerzy Kosinski Quotes
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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 don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.
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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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There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.
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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.
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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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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.
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Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.
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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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Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.
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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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Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.
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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.
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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.
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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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Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.
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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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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 collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.
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The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
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Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.
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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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I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.
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A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.