Jerzy Kosinski Quotes - Page 3

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

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Father, Saws, Wanted

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• 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 unnecessary suffering and punishment.

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  Punishment, Usa, Long

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

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  Poetic License, Novelists, Poetic

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

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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 States.

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  America, United States, Cards

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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

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Boys, Imagination, Bird

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

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  Self, Order, Pushing

  Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.73, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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 waste of time.

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  Country, Travel, Character

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• People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  People, Profound, Television

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