“It's gone!" he repeats, almost ecstatically. "That's because you let it go," Jacob tells him.” — Christopher Isherwood 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
California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land. — Christopher Isherwood California Copy Share Image
“Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Everything in the room is like that: unnecessarily solid, abnormally heavy and dangerously sharp.” — 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
What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament. — Christopher Isherwood Expression Copy Share Image
“Never mind. Never mind. In this brief life, one cannot always be counting the cost.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the real clue to your sexual orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than your sexual feelings.… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I'm horrified to find, as I look at these diaries of twenty-five years ago or more, that I don't remember who the… — 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
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
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
“Beneath outer consciousness, two other beings, anonymous, impersonal, without labels, had met and recognized each other and clasped hands.” — Christopher Isherwood Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
“I was very pink and young and English; and quite prepared for a Continent complete with poisonous drains, roast frogs, bedbugs and… — Christopher Isherwood Pink Copy Share Image
California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How… — Christopher Isherwood Alive 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
“... he couldn't, as a respectable master in an English public school, have taken us to a brothel. Yet how I wish… — Christopher Isherwood 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
As they embrace, she kisses him full on the mouth. And suddenly sticks her tongue right in. She has done this before,… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that;… — Christopher Isherwood Facts 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,… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“The living room is dark and low-ceilinged, with bookshelves all along the wall opposite the windows. These books have not made George… — Christopher Isherwood Books Copy Share Image
“An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the… — Christopher Isherwood California Copy Share Image
“...George's feathers are ruffled. It's been a long time since last he forgot and let himself get up steam like this...How humiliating!… — Christopher Isherwood 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The gramophone keeps reiterating a statement about life with which I do not agree.” — Christopher Isherwood Dissent Copy Share Image
“When you want anything badly, you always have to make some sacrifices.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
You see, Kenny, there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“George feels flattered and excited...He can't resist slipping into the role Kenny so temptingly offers him.” — Christopher Isherwood Playing roles Copy Share Image
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. — Christopher Isherwood Life Copy Share Image
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