“He crosses the front room, which he calls his study, and comes down the staircase. The stairs turn a corner; they are… — Christopher Isherwood Education 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 Champagne 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
“I walked across the snowy plain of the Tiergarten - a smashed statue here, a newly planted sapling there; the Brandenburger Tor,… — Christopher Isherwood Morning light Copy Share Image
“The game is cruel; but its cruelty is sensual and stirs George into hot excitement. He feels a thrill of pleasure to… — Christopher Isherwood Cruelty 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
