Cities Quote by Jerzy Kosinski

“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, on many levels.”

Jerzy Kosinski

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United…

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

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