Quotes by Jerzy Kosinski

Jerzy Kosinski

[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.

Helping

Rooms

Veils

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

Novelists

Poetic

Poetic License

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.

Cities

Europe

New York

All my father saw was what he wanted to see.

Father

Saws

Wanted

All my life I’ve been hiding.

Hiding

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.

Art

Missing You

Purpose

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.

Father

Real

Sleep

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.

America

Cards

United States

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

Bird

Boys

Imagination

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.

Compassion

Garden

Sunshine

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America

Art

Attention

Average

Being Alone

Bird

Blood

Blooming

Body

Book

Boys

Bypass

Cards

Careers

Character

Children

Cities

Claims

Clouds

Cocktails

Comfort

Company

Compass

Compassion

Consciousness

Country

Creative

Curious

Decay

Destiny

Dies

Doe

Drug

Dying

Eternity

Europe

Expression

Fall

Father

Fear

Fine

Firsts

Forget

Forums

Garden

Gathering

Giving

Grownups

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Quotes by Jerzy Kosinski

Jerzy Kosinski

[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.

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

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.

All my father saw was what he wanted to see.

All my life I’ve been hiding.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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