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Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort. (Jerzy Kosinski)
It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life. View quote
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I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person. View quote
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I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art. View quote
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Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life. View quote
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It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable. View quote
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I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them. View quote
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When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely. View quote
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Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them. View quote
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The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. View quote
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Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us. (Jerzy Kosinski)
Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. View quote
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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. View quote
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Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression. View quote
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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. I hold his work in low regard. View quote
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The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation. View quote
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As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real. View quote
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Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self. View quote
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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 energy to live. View quote
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The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating. View quote
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- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all be well. (Jerzy Kosinski)
I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves. View quote
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All my father saw was what he wanted to see. View quote
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Jerzy Kosinski

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Occupation: Polish Novelist
Born: June 14, 1933
Died: May 3, 1991
Quotes count: 48

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