Polish - Novelist | June 14, 1933 - May 3, 19911
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.
Jerzy Kosinski
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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.
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Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.
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There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.
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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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The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
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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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Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.
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Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.
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Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.
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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.
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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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