Jerzy Kosinski Quotes

Jerzy Kosinski (31)

Birth:	14th June, 1933
Death:	3rd May, 1991
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

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• Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

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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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• 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 principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

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• The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

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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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• 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 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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• 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 not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own 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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• 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 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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