"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 Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Bird Quotes

“I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me.”
“Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as having represented to it, by the Spirit of Christ, riches, honor, beauty and pleasures of a higher nature.”
“I've known a whole lot of bulls in my time, and their work is never done.”
“Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.”
“God has been working at a purpose to have a good world. That he's spoken to people and explained things so that we can understand what he's been doing and is going to do and can come to understand ourselves. And that he wants to hear from us.”
“We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?”
“I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Man lives in a world of meaning.”

Source : "The Nature of Aesthetic Experience". International Journal of Ethics, Vol. 36, No. 4, p. 382, July, 1926.

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