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Jerzy Kosinski

"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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"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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"When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist."

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"There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you."

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"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern."

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"Music gives strength to the spirit."

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"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."

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"What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art."

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"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."

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"Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind."

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"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."

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"I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person."
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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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"Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort."
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"I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day."
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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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"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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"The principle of art is to pause, not bypass."
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