Past History Quotes by Jerzy Kosiński

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

— Jerzy Kosiński

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

— Jerzy Kosinski

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

— Jerzy Kosiński

“When I saw them in Africa, I thought these birds were the greatest fliers of all. Hardly beating their wings, they fly for hours,…

— Jerzy Kosiński

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

— Jerzy Kosiński

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

— Jerzy Kosinski

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

— Jerzy Kosinski

“Against the background of bland colors he projected an unfadable blackness. In a world of men with harrowed faces, with smashed eyes, bloody, bruised…

— Jerzy Kosinski

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

— Jerzy Kosinski

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium.…

— 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…

— Jerzy Kosinski

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

— Jerzy Kosinski

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

— Jerzy Kosiński

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

I am curious about grownups, not children.

— Jerzy Kosinski