Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life
Jerzy KosińskiI am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity
Jerzy KosińskiStichwörter: suicide-note
There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden.
Jerzy KosińskiStichwörter: pain
It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.
Jerzy KosińskiStichwörter: drug
- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all be well.
Jerzy KosińskiStichwörter: inspirational
Life is a state of mind.
Jerzy KosińskiCan the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?"
- from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird
Stichwörter: foreword
I wondered whether the loss of one's sight would deprive a person also of the memory of everything that he had seen before. If so, the man would no longer be able to see even in his dreams. if not, if only the eyeless could still see through their memory, it would not be too bad. The world seemed to be pretty much the same everywhere, and even though people differed from one another, just as animals and trees did, one should know fairly well what they looked like after seeing them for years. I had lived only seven years, but I remembered a lot of things. when I closed my eyes, many details cam back still more vividly. who knows, perhaps without his eyes the plowboy would start seeing an entirely new, more fascinating world.
Jerzy KosińskiWouldn't it be easier to change people's eyes and hair than to build big furnaces and then catch Jews and Gypsies to burn them?
Jerzy KosińskiI always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.
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