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Jerzy Kosinski quotes: There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: 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.

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.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: No big corporation would promote a hunchback.

No big corporation would promote a hunchback.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: We know our lives are chaotic, but we insist that everything happen in an orderly way and be logically conceived.

We know our lives are chaotic, but we insist that everything happen in an orderly way and be logically conceived.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: Life is a state of mind.

Life is a state of mind.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

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

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.

It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: Living is an arbitrary matter and I have every right to renounce it.

Living is an arbitrary matter and I have every right to renounce it.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: No one can help me find answers, least of all someone who claims he's found a solution to life.

No one can help me find answers, least of all someone who claims he's found a solution to life.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

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

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: Accents don't show up in music.

Accents don't show up in music.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: I write when I feel like it, and I feel like it most of the time.

I write when I feel like it, and I feel like it most of the time.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: 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.

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.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: I am curious about grownups, not children.

I am curious about grownups, not children.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.

Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: Chance waited patiently until she stopped.

Chance waited patiently until she stopped.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: My cynicism continuously undermines her faith in her own ability to master her moods.

My cynicism continuously undermines her faith in her own ability to master her moods.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.

My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: Ruined chimneys rose above masses of broken bricks

Ruined chimneys rose above masses of broken bricks

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: 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.

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.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: I deserve no punishment at all for being who I am.

I deserve no punishment at all for being who I am.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: There should be no promise of a plot. Plot is extraordinary, while chance is ordinary.

There should be no promise of a plot. Plot is extraordinary, while chance is ordinary.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: Freezing kills the flavor.

Freezing kills the flavor.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: 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.

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.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

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.

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: He had found the one calm place in the midst of the storm, a quiet voice calling him to earth.

He had found the one calm place in the midst of the storm, a quiet voice calling him to earth.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: As a boy I got the idea that death was an animal which lay curled inside waiting to swallow us.

As a boy I got the idea that death was an animal which lay curled inside waiting to swallow us.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: 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.

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.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: All my life I've been hiding.

All my life I've been hiding.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: So this is insanity. How interesting. What happens next?

So this is insanity. How interesting. What happens next?

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: She protected herself by making herself believe no-one else could ever really understand her.

She protected herself by making herself believe no-one else could ever really understand her.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?"- from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?"
- from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.

It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity

I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: I'm sure there are aspects of my personality buried within me that will surface as soon as I know I am completely loved.

I'm sure there are aspects of my personality buried within me that will surface as soon as I know I am completely loved.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.

When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.

I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them.

The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: There were innumerable selves that he evoked in her.

There were innumerable selves that he evoked in her.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: Of all mammals, only a human being can say 'no.

Of all mammals, only a human being can say 'no.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.

You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: All my father saw was what he wanted to see.

All my father saw was what he wanted to see.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.

Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: That's why she keeps her nails long, she says, to be able to scratch and claw.

That's why she keeps her nails long, she says, to be able to scratch and claw.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: I have always suspected everyone who likes me of having poor judgment. I despise them for being so easily taken in.

I have always suspected everyone who likes me of having poor judgment. I despise them for being so easily taken in.

Jerzy Kosinski quotes: Wouldn't it be easier to change people's eyes and hair than to build big furnaces and then catch Jews and Gypsies to burn them?

Wouldn't it be easier to change people's eyes and hair than to build big furnaces and then catch Jews and Gypsies to burn them?