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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.

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
Punishment, Usa, Long

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.

Jerzy Kosinski
Sunshine, Garden, Compassion
Jerzy Kosinski (2007). “Being There”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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.

Jerzy Kosinski
America, United States, Cards

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

Jerzy Kosinski
Boys, Imagination, Bird

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

Jerzy Kosinski
Self, Order, Pushing
Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.73, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

Jerzy Kosinski
Poetic License, Novelists, Poetic
Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.269, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

Jerzy Kosinski
Country, Travel, Character

People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.

Jerzy Kosinski
People, Profound, Television

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