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Life is complicated, but not uninteresting — Jerzy Neyman

A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

If you want to create a masterpiece, you must always avoid beautiful lies. — Jerzy Grotowski

It's a great question about what is our mind. Undoubtedly a creation of our brain. — Jerzy Vetulani

When gossip gets old it becomes a myth. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

How many prison years in the years since Christ! — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Life is a state of mind. — Jerzy Kosinski

He had a clear conscience. Never used it. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

If we successful, we will enter into the history of mountaineering, we will have the opportunity to its success to sacrifice our colleagues. — Jerzy Kukuczka

Do I believe? God only knows. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

A tired exclamation mark is a question mark. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Climbing is a great effort, but the extraordinary pleasure. — Jerzy Kukuczka

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

We understand everything; that is why we understand nothing. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I am curious about grownups, not children. — Jerzy Kosinski

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

Vaclav Havel is the figure that represents the Velvet Revolution and the reunification of Europe. He will be sorely missed. — Jerzy Buzek

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

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

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

You don't 'love' people when they are 'nice'. Don't you see that's the same as saying 'what's in it for me'? — Jerzy Pilch

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

Most of the sighs we hear have been edited. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The greater the dark, the easier to be a star. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

There were grammatical errors even in his silence. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The closer to the top, the more grew in me the belief that it might be fulfilled, which most dreaming. — Jerzy Kukuczka

The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

It's the priests who have demands, not the gods. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Love and respect are above any law — Uri Jerzy Nachimson

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

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

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

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

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

Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

All Gods were immortal. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Even the voice of conscience undergoes mutation. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

My tongue thirsty for superiority, maybe even immortality, ruled me. I was ruled by my tongue. I was ruled by women. I was ruled by alcohol. — Jerzy Pilch

Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I wasnt political in order to be political — Jerzy Grotowski

An error becomes an error when born as truth. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Creativity is an integral part of our personality. — Jerzy Vetulani

Oh, to know God's private address. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

People find life entirely too time-consuming. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

The exit is usually where the entrance was. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

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

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

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

Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Do not make gods in your own images. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Value your words. Each one may be the last. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

He who limps is still walking. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers ... of other countries. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

If one is seeking for Heaven on earth, has slept in geography class. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec