"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."

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Source : Jerzy Kosinski (1975). “The devil tree”

Jerzy Kosinski

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“It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.”
“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”

Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “The Poet at the Breakfast Table”, p.33, Reprint Services Corporation
“What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?”
“If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?”
“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”
“Peter's face clouded. "Everything comes at a price. Or have you not learned that yet?”
“The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.”
“All writers are waiting for replies. Thatâ€™s what Iâ€™ve learned. Maybe all human beings are”

Source : Niall Williams (2014). “History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014”, p.335, A&C Black

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