“It's gone!" he repeats, almost ecstatically. "That's because you let it go," Jacob tells him.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“It’s possible to commit art and entertainment in the same moment.” — Christopher Isherwood Art Copy Share Image
“His boredom was like a nostalgia for the whole world. He was homesick for everywhere but here.” — Christopher Isherwood Boredom Copy Share Image
I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“There was nothing to be done with him and his kind - unless you were prepared to shoot them.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“All right, we've heard your liberty speech. Does that include us or doesn't it?” — Christopher Isherwood Communication Copy Share Image
Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor. — Christopher Isherwood Bad writing Copy Share Image
“No one ever hates without a cause…” Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without a cause. No one ever… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“It was as crude as his drafts always were. But it accomplished the enormous feat of making this shapeless blob of potential… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Here, in their midst, George feels a sort of vertigo. Oh God, what will become of them all? What chance have they?… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
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 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 Life Copy Share Image
“George feels that, even if all this double talk hasn't brought them any closer to understanding each other, the not-understanding, the readiness… — Christopher Isherwood Intimacy Copy Share Image
“The pain of hunger beneath everything. At the end of all love-making, the dreamless sleep after the orgasm, which is like death.” — Christopher Isherwood Death Copy Share Image
“I always say that I only wish to have three sorts of people as my friends, those who are very rich, those… — Christopher Isherwood Friend Copy Share Image
Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“By the time it has gotten dressed, it has become he; has become already more or less George — though still not… — Christopher Isherwood Depression Copy Share Image
In the eternal lazy morning of the Pacific, days slip away into months, months into years; the seasons are reduced to the… — Christopher Isherwood Eternal 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 Absurd 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
“Fond of bewailing the decadence of the modern world, of denouncing the younger generation for its lack of idealism and public spirit,… — Christopher Isherwood Modern world Copy Share Image
“Now, for example, people with freckles aren't thought of as a minority by the non-freckled. They aren't a minority in the sense… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Sometimes Arthur talked about his childhood. As a boy he was delicate and had never been sent to school. An only son,… — 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 Experience Copy Share Image
“The really destructive feature of their relationship is its inherent quality of boredom. It is quite natural for Peter often to feel… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“...a minority is only thought of as a minority if it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary.… — Christopher Isherwood Kingdom of heaven Copy Share Image
“Fear, after all, is our real enemy. Fear is taking over our world. Fear is being used as a tool of manipulation… — Christopher Isherwood Bad breath Copy Share Image
“Christ, it is sad, sad to see on quite a few of these faces - young ones particularly - a glum, defeated… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“As a final test, I tried to look Arthur in the eyes. But no, this time-honoured process didn't work. Here were no… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Now, for example, people with freckles aren’t thought of as a minority by the nonfreckled. They aren’t a minority in the sense… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“And now an hour, maybe, has passed. And they are both drunk: Kenny fairly, George very. But George is drunk in a… — Christopher Isherwood Communication Copy Share Image
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Everything in the room is like that: unnecessarily solid, abnormally heavy and dangerously sharp.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land. — Christopher Isherwood California Copy Share Image
“If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
