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
In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter. — Jerzy Kosinski Moments Copy Share Image
Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
“I write when I feel like it, and I feel like it most of the time.” — 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
“Living is an arbitrary matter and I have every right to renounce it.” — Jerzy Kosiński 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
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
“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
“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
[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
- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain… — Jerzy Kosinski Art 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
“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
“I remember how, as a boy, I used to collect the cork tips of my father's cigarettes and stick them in my… — Jerzy Kosiński Memories Copy Share Image
“At first I was afraid that I would be left defenseless, that I would babble aloud the things I've always been terrified… — Jerzy Kosiński Fear Copy Share Image
“People prefer to avoid confronting deformity and when they do it's only for kicks.” — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel. — Jerzy Kosinski Books Copy Share Image
I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself. — Jerzy Kosinski Attention Copy Share Image
“She protected herself by making herself believe no-one else could ever really understand her.” — Jerzy Kosiński Heart 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 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
“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
“No one can help me find answers, least of all someone who claims he's found a solution to life.” — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
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