I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
In ten minutes they will have arrived on campus. George will have to be George; the George they have named and will… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
To live sanely in Los Angeles ... you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Do you think it makes people nasty to be loved? You know it doesn’t! Then why should it make them nice to… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
The more I think about myself, the more I'm persuaded that, as a person, I really don't exist. That is one of… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at… — 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
“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
