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• 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.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Missing You, Art, Purpose

  Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.105, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Careers, Wonder, Made

  Jerzy Kosinski (2007). “Blind Date”, p.244, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• [Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

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  Veils, Rooms, Helping

  Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

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  Photography, Expression, Firsts

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• En Londres, el tiempo me afectaría negativamente. Reacciono mucho a la luz. Si está nublado y llueve, hay nubes y lluvia en mi alma.

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  Rain, Clouds, Light

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• In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

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  Literature, Moments, Photograph

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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.

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  Numbers, Literature, Forums

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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.

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  Father, Real, Sleep

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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.

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  Self, Shells, Lovers

  Jerzy Kosinski (2007). “Steps”, p.77, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Mapplethorpe presentaba el cuerpo como un objeto sexual, separándolo de la humanidad de la persona. No aportó nada a la fotografía como medio. Su obra me merece poca consideración.

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  Photography, Humanity, Body

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

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  Art, Way, Fine

  Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.270, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity

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  Sleep, Usual, Eternity

  Death note, www.imdb.com. May 3, 1991.

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• Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

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  Loneliness, Being Alone, Gathering

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

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  Writing, Attention, Language

  Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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.

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  Adventure, Blood, Giving

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• Me gusta vivir en casa de otras personas. Me gusta ser huésped. Soy un invitado barato. Cuando uno vive en casa de otro puede entrar en el reino psíquico de esa persona.

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  Home, Psychics, People

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• Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

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  Comfort, Literature, Physical Attraction

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• I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

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  Writing, Use, Literature

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• It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

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  Mean, Hands, Cocktails

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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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  Sex, Roles, Literature

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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.

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  Destiny, Sick, House

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• All my life I've been hiding.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Ocultar

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• 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

  New York, Europe, Cities

  Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.269, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

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  Punishment, Withdrawal, Literature

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• All my father saw was what he wanted to see.

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  Father, Saws, Wanted

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