All Jerzy Kosinski Quotes
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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Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.
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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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A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.
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The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
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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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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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I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.
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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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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 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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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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I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.
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Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.
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