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Jerzy Kosinski

"The principle of art is to pause, not bypass."

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."

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"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

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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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"Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life."
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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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"I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening."
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"Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort."
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"In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul."
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"If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one."
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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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