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" In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter. "
Jerzy Kosinski
Shutter
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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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" 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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" It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life. "
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" I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel. "
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" Take a look at the books other people have in their homes. "
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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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" There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant. "
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" Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard. "
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" There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital. "
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" The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. "
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" The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort. "
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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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" Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art. "
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" The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. "
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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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