I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
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 Inspirational Copy Share Image
She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed. — Christopher Isherwood Camera 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
“Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention – though we may lie about it sometimes, to heighten it.” — Christopher Isherwood Innovation Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid, ha, ha, I find more inspiration in the Marquis de Sade.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I feel it's so easy to condemn this country [the United States]; but they don't understand that this is where the mistakes… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly… — Christopher Isherwood Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Experience isn't any use. And yet, in quite another way, it might be. If only we weren't all such miserable fools and… — Christopher Isherwood Cowards Copy Share Image
“Chalmers, thanks to Baudelaire, knew all about Taffreuse Juive, opium, absinthe, negresses, Lesbos and the metamorphoses of the vampire ... Needless to… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their… — Christopher Isherwood Books 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
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 Adaptation 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
“And now, as George pours the vodka (giving her a light one, to slow her down) and the scotch (giving himself a… — 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 Life 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
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
“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
“A veteran, calm and assured, he pauses for a well-measured moment in the doorway of the office and then, boldly, clearly, with… — Christopher Isherwood Behavior 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 Hope Copy Share Image
“Finally, after a glance at Notre Dame and a brisk trot through the Louvre, we sat down at a cafe on the… — Christopher Isherwood Notre dame 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
“...all around George, approaching him, crossing his path from every direction, is the male and female raw material which is fed daily… — Christopher Isherwood Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself. — Christopher Isherwood People Copy Share Image
Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Like a long train which stops at every dingy little station, the winter dragged slowly past.” — Christopher Isherwood Fitness Copy Share Image
“...I have had an unpleasant feeling, such as one has in a dream, that I myself do not exist.” — Christopher Isherwood Dream Copy Share Image
“I always look upon the capacity to save money as little short of miraculous.” — Christopher Isherwood Miraculous Copy Share Image
The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel. — Christopher Isherwood Fatherhood Copy Share Image
“...she acted as a kind of rough and ready chemical reagent; in certain combinations she produced certain known results.” — Christopher Isherwood Heart 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
“I do and always shall maintain that it is the privilege of the richer but less mentally endowed members of the community… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
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