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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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Jerzy Kosinski
between June 18, 1933 and May 3, 1991. He/she was a famous
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