"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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Source : Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.105, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Jerzy Kosinski

#Missing You Quotes #Art Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“The Olympics are great. For two weeks we become absolutely fascinated in these people we've never heard of before and will never think of again.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.”
“You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.”

Source : "THR's Writer Roundtable: Osama bin Laden, Why 'Schindler's List' Is Irresponsible and When Judd Apatow Was a Dishwasher". Interview with Matthew Belloni and Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 14, 2012.
“I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.”

Source : George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press
“I'm one of these people that always looks on the bad side of the fence.”
“Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my heart, yes, even in my most helpless, futile, fruitless moments. The very cracks and empty crannies of my life, my perplexities and hurts and botched-up jobs, He wants to fill with Himself, His joy, His life...He urges me to learn of Him: 'I am gentle and humble in heart.”
“Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.”

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