Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Never mind. Never mind. In this brief life, one cannot always be counting the cost.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“The gramophone keeps reiterating a statement about life with which I do not agree.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention – though we may lie about it sometimes, to heighten it.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“George makes himself remembers. He is afraid of forgetting. Jim is my life, he says. But he will have to forget, if… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“How delightful it is to be here.(Gym) If only one could spend one's entire life in this state of easygoing physical democracy.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“I've always made it a rule to have a suit for every day of the week. Perhaps you'll tell me I'm vain,… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“George feels a kind of patriotism for the freeways. He is proud that they are so fast, that people get lost on… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“I mean, I'm not naive enough to imagine that anyone can be satisfied indefinitely by memories, especially if he's young and full… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite naïve about most kinds of experience; he fears… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“A grown man who can shed tears without embarrassment is like a yogi who has learned to expel toxic matter from his… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“And again and again I have to remind myself the whole art of life is to lean on people, to involve oneself… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“The living room is dark and low-ceilinged, with bookshelves all along the wall opposite the windows. These books have not made George… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Just suppose that the dead do revisit the living. That something approximately to be described as Jim can return to see how… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“He feels a nausea of distaste for them all; then sudden rage. Damn all food. Damn all life. He would like to… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“They keep telling you, when you’re older, you’ll have experience—and that’s supposed to be so great. What would you say about that,… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“...all around George, approaching him, crossing his path from every direction, is the male and female raw material which is fed daily… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“In another moment, when I had drunk exactly the right amount of champagne, I should have a vision. I took a sip.… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“From his angle, the curtain seems to form itself into a shrouded, wavering figure, indescribably terrifying in its very indistinctness. Something waiting, hovering on… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share
“If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share
But seriously, I believe I'm a sort of Ideal Woman, if you know what I mean. I'm the sort of woman who can take… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share
If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share
“By the time it has gotten dressed, it has become he; has become already more or less George — though still not the whole… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share
“George feels that, even if all this double talk hasn't brought them any closer to understanding each other, the not-understanding, the readiness to remain… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share
“Now, for example, people with freckles aren’t thought of as a minority by the nonfreckled. They aren’t a minority in the sense we’re talking… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share
“Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share
“Here, in their midst, George feels a sort of vertigo. Oh God, what will become of them all? What chance have they? Ought I… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share
We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share
In the eternal lazy morning of the Pacific, days slip away into months, months into years; the seasons are reduced to the faintest nuance… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share
“Waking up begins with am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share
“Like a long train which stops at every dingy little station, the winter dragged slowly past.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share
Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share
