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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. — Jerzy Kosinski

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

No big corporation would promote a hunchback. — Jerzy Kosinski

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

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

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

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

Life is a state of mind. — Jerzy Kosinski

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

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

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

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

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

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

Accents don't show up in music. — Jerzy Kosinski

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chance waited patiently until she stopped. — Jerzy Kosinski

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

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

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

Ruined chimneys rose above masses of broken bricks — Jerzy Kosinski

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

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

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

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

Freezing kills the flavor. — Jerzy Kosinski

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All my life I've been hiding. — Jerzy Kosinski

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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? — Jerzy Kosinski