Jerzy Kosinski Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.
• 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.
• Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as…
• Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I…
• The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
• Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.
• I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.
• I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.
• If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.
• A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on,…
• A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.
• Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to…
• She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual…
• Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.
• It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.
• I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.
• 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…
• It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

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