Top 100 Jerzy Quotes
#4. My cynicism continuously undermines her faith in her own ability to master her moods.
Jerzy Kosinski
#5. Actors should arouse a sense of wonder because of their ability to exceed what the spectators can envision ever being able to do.
Jerzy Grotowski
#7. The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#8. Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#9. 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
#12. 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
#13. I write when I feel like it, and I feel like it most of the time.
Jerzy Kosinski
#14. Within a month of intense life in the mountains is going through so much, what used to be a period of several years; This is a occupancy for people greedy for life - human life is not enough.
Jerzy Kukuczka
#15. Ruined chimneys rose above masses of broken bricks
Jerzy Kosinski
#17. At a time when you stay at the top, there is no explosion of happiness - happiness is experienced when everything remains in front of you, when you know that you have to a goal a few hundred, a few dozen meters when you are right in front. This is the time of happiness.
Jerzy Kukuczka
#19. 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.
Jerzy Kosinski
#21. It is not theatre that is indispensable, but something quite different. To cross the frontiers between you and me.
Jerzy Grotowski
#22. I deserve no punishment at all for being who I am.
Jerzy Kosinski
#25. Young artists wish for inspired moments. And you find them; you take them; eager artists are bandits. Theatrical moments arrive, and ... you grab. Good! You know it will draw attention to you. But you aim to be more than bandits, no? So, okay ... now be Samurai.
Jerzy Grotowski
#26. As a boy I got the idea that death was an animal which lay curled inside waiting to swallow us.
Jerzy Kosinski
#30. All that matters on the stage is good art.
Jerzy Jeszke
#31. I have always suspected everyone who likes me of having poor judgment. I despise them for being so easily taken in.
Jerzy Kosinski
#32. Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#33. We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#34. So this is insanity. How interesting. What happens next?
Jerzy Kosinski
#36. I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity
Jerzy Kosinski
#37. Since the boss said I would play, I've been thinking I should kiss the penalty spot, the grass and the post. I think every Liverpool player should do that.
Jerzy Dudek
#38. A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.
Jerzy Kosinski
#39. I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.
Jerzy Kosinski
#40. The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them.
Jerzy Kosinski
#41. I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.
Jerzy Kosinski
#42. 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.
Jerzy Kosinski
#43. Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational ... We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.
Jerzy Kosinski
#45. Living is an arbitrary matter and I have every right to renounce it.
Jerzy Kosinski
#47. 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.
Jerzy Kosinski
#48. Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#49. The popular culture says ... Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.
Jerzy Kosinski
#52. Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.
Jerzy Kosinski
#58. It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.
Jerzy Kosinski
#59. There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.
Jerzy Kosinski
#60. 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
#62. Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#63. Life is complicated, but not uninteresting
Jerzy Neyman
#64. 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
#65. Their bodies were so close together that there was no room for real affection.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#67. Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#68. You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.
Jerzy Kosinski
#69. I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.
Jerzy Kosinski
#71. If you want to create a masterpiece, you must always avoid beautiful lies.
Jerzy Grotowski
#72. I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#73. 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.
Jerzy Kosinski
#74. First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#76. Even the masochists tell everything when tortured. From sheer gratitude.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#77. I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.
Jerzy Kosinski
#81. There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.
Jerzy Kosinski
#83. The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#84. Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#85. Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?"
- from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosinski
#86. At first I was afraid that I would be left defenseless, that I would babble aloud the things I've always been terrified of saying. Instead, opium made me realize that I could say anything I liked without losing my identity.
Jerzy Kosinski
#87. 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 Kosinski
#89. Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.
Jerzy Kosinski
#91. The song becomes the meaning itself through the vibratory qualities. When we begin to catch the vibratory qualities ... the song begins to sing us ... I don't know anymore if I am finding that song or if I am that song.
Jerzy Grotowski
#92. I am not enough to be only in the mountains, not enough to be on an expedition. I believe that if the walks uphill, then with some goal, and that goal is to climb to the top.
Jerzy Kukuczka
#93. When a player knows he is a slave he'll never give his employer his heart.
Jerzy Dudek
#94. Karen told me about an old woman who was the last surviving inhabitant of one of the Hermit Islands. She was the only one left who could speak her tribe's language, but the anthropologists didn't realize it and never bothered to learn it from her. When the old woman died, the language died with her.
Jerzy Kosinski
#95. She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.
Jerzy Kosinski
#99. Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.
Jerzy Kosinski
#100. The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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