Jerzy Kosiński Quotes

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I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

Jerzy Kosiński
And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

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When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.

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A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

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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 decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.

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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.

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There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

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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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There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden.

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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.

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Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

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I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.

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

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I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

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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 one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.

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It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.

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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.

Jerzy Kosiński