I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about.… — Christopher Isherwood Book Copy Share Image
In order to get the worst possible first impression of Los Angeles one should arrive there by bus, preferably in summer and… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“I could never keep anybody for long. And that's because I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets… — 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 Book Copy Share Image
“I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about.”… — 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 Camera 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 Forgetting Copy Share Image
“I had failed him; I knew it. But I could do no more. It was beyond my strength. That night, I think,… — 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
To live sanely in Los Angeles ... you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly… — Christopher Isherwood Art 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
“Because the persecuting majority is vile, says the liberal, therefore the persecuted minority must be stainlessly pure. Can't you see what nonsense… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
At one campus where I was lecturing, I asked a friend, "How many of my colleagues know I'm gay?" He answered, "All… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“All women like men to be strong and decided and following out their careers. A woman wants to be motherly to a… — Christopher Isherwood Feminism Copy Share Image
“The Europeans hate us because we’ve retired to live inside our advertisements, like hermits going into caves to contemplate. We sleep in… — Christopher Isherwood Americans Copy Share Image
“You don't even have a cat or a dog or anything?" "You think I should?" George asks, a bit aggressive. The poor… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any… — Christopher Isherwood Attitude Copy Share Image
“...I remember a rainy, depressing afternoon when she remarked 'What a pity we can't make love, there's nothing else to do,' and… — Christopher Isherwood Boredom Copy Share Image
“He dislikes even to touch these things, for they are the runes of an idiotic but nevertheless potent and evil magic; the… — Christopher Isherwood Computers 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
I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews… — 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 Art 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 Entire life Copy Share Image
“This is a tightly planned little house. He often feels protected by its smallness; there is hardly room enough here to feel… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary.… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“You're a nice boy," she chuckled harshly. "You must come round here one evening. I'll teach you something you didn't know before.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Does he know about me? George wonders; do any of them? Oh yes, probably. It wouldn't interest them. They don't want to… — Christopher Isherwood Depression Copy Share Image
The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a locked room long past midnight, is… — Christopher Isherwood Anarchist Copy Share Image
Hollywood's two polar types are the cynically drunken writer aggressively nursing a ten-year-old reputation and the theatrically self-conscious hermit who strides the… — Christopher Isherwood Age Copy Share Image
“This bright place isn't really a sanctuary. For, ambushed among its bottles and cartons and cans, are shockingly vivid memories of meals… — Christopher Isherwood Vivid memories 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
His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite naïve about most kinds of experience; he fears… — Christopher Isherwood Acting Copy Share Image
But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last… — Christopher Isherwood Cold Copy Share Image
“But George is getting old. Won't it very soon be too late? Never use those words to George. He won't listen. He… — Christopher Isherwood Getting old Copy Share Image
Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling… — Christopher Isherwood Awoken Copy Share Image
The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of… — Christopher Isherwood Book Copy Share Image
What’s so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn’t any difference between people —well, like you were saying about minorities,… — Christopher Isherwood Differences Copy Share Image
“Chalmers, like many of the English writers whom he then most admired, felt a strong natural sympathy with everything French. At Rouen… — Christopher Isherwood French culture Copy Share Image
“Cambridge exceeded our most macabre expectations ... the arm-chairs, the crumpets, the beautifully-bound eighteenth century volumes, the fires roaring in stoked grates.… — Christopher Isherwood Cambridge Copy Share Image
Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own skeleton aching. I feel in my bones the sharp… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
