“Living is an arbitrary matter and I have every right to renounce it.” — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them. — Jerzy Kosinski Rent Copy Share Image
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life. — Jerzy Kosinski Life Copy Share Image
Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
“There should be no promise of a plot. Plot is extraordinary, while chance is ordinary.” — Jerzy Kosiński Chance Copy Share Image
Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort. — Jerzy Kosinski Attraction Copy Share Image
“Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.” — Jerzy Kosiński Language Copy Share Image
“As a child I used to lie on the floor with my eyes tightly closed and hope that people would walk past… — Jerzy Kosiński Children Copy Share Image
“He had found the one calm place in the midst of the storm, a quiet voice calling him to earth.” — Jerzy Kosiński Calm Copy Share Image
[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life. — Jerzy Kosinski Consciousness Copy Share Image
The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in… — Jerzy Kosinski America Copy Share Image
A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could… — Jerzy Kosinski Cities Copy Share Image
“Karen told me about an old woman who was the last surviving inhabitant of one of the Hermit Islands. She was the… — Jerzy Kosiński Karen Copy Share Image
The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house.… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as… — Jerzy Kosinski Audience Copy Share Image
She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal… — Jerzy Kosinski Bird Copy Share Image
“The native calls the baobab 'the devil tree' because he claims that the devil, getting tangled in its branches, punished by the… — Jerzy Kosiński Trees Copy Share Image
“The Germans puzzled me. What a waste. Was such a destitute, cruel world worth ruling?” — Jerzy Kosiński Cruel world Copy Share Image
“There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return.” — Jerzy Kosiński Experience Copy Share Image
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression. — Jerzy Kosinski Art Copy Share Image
“That's why she keeps her nails long, she says, to be able to scratch and claw.” — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
“My cynicism continuously undermines her faith in her own ability to master her moods.” — Jerzy Kosiński Cynicism Copy Share Image
I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all. — Jerzy Kosinski Compass Copy Share Image
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital. — Jerzy Kosinski Punishment Copy Share Image
I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art. — Jerzy Kosinski Art Copy Share Image
I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me. — Jerzy Kosinski Humans Copy Share Image
You don't die in the United States, you underachieve. — Jerzy Kosinski Death and dying Copy Share Image
I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves. — Jerzy Kosinski Extremes Copy Share Image
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening. — Jerzy Kosinski Evening Copy Share Image
I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems… — Jerzy Kosinski Action Copy Share Image
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