Status Updates From Blind Date

The metal caught the light. “It’s a New York subway token,” he said, laughing. “There’s nothing like it in Mrs. Kirkland’s collection.”

Kosinksi, Jerzy. Blind Date (pg. 216)

"He was close to the brightly lit house and Serena. Now that the night had turned chilly, he was anxious to be indoors. His past was a matter of regret, his future was haunted by premonitions; only the present still gave value to time."

Kosinski, Jerzy. Blind Date (pg. 201)

"The shaft of the abandoned factory. The girl behind. All this was and was not. Who said that to him? It was and it was not."

-Kosinski, Jerzy. Blind Date (pg. 181)

"Levanter left his payment on the counter, picked up his shirts, and walked out."

-Kosinski, Jerzy. Blind Date (pg. 126)

"Like many other Europeans living in America, Levanter was awed by the effect the size of the country and its large population could have on one’s sense of freedom and enterprise."

-Kosinski, Jerzy. Blind Date (pg. 94)

“The daughter of Stalin an American. It can’t be.” He shook his head. “If within a quarter of a century you or I can go through life under Stalin and then go halfway around the world and meet his daughter as an ordinary next-door neighbor, well, I guess that means anything can happen.”

-Kosinski, Jerzy. Blind Date (pg. 79)

“I have no education. I was sent to do combat with the Nazi vipers so that your kind could study in peace.” Barbatov spoke with a pronounced lisp and paused often.

-Kosinski, Jerzy. Blind Date (pg. 46)

"Her lips, chapped by the wind, felt dry."

-Kosinski, Jerzy. Blind Date (pg. 27)

“You’re very talented,” said Levanter. “I admire that.”

“My piano teacher warned me that insufficient talent is nature’s most cruel gift.” She laughed.

-Kosinski, Jerzy. Blind Date (pg. 7)

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