The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

—Jerzy Kosiński

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About Jerzy Kosiński

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Jerzy Kosiński (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjɛʐɨ kɔˈɕij̃skʲi]; born Józef Nikodem Lewinkopf; June 14, 1933 – May 3, 1991) was a Polish-born American writer and two-time president of the American chapter of PEN, who wrote primarily in English.

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The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

—Jerzy Kosiński

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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Those are my principles, and if you don't like them… well, I have others.

—Groucho Marx

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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principles contain it or stand against it.

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Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

—Anatole France

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Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.

—Groucho Marx

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