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Christopher Isherwood quotes: I put my genius into my life, not into my art. I put my genius into my life, not into my art.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: Never mind. Never mind. In this brief life, one cannot always be counting the cost. Never mind. Never mind. In this brief life, one cannot always be counting the cost.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: 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. 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 quotes: You see, Kenny, there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked. You see, Kenny, there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: No. Even now I can't altogether believe that any of this really happened ... No. Even now I can't altogether believe that any of this really happened ...
Christopher Isherwood quotes: What is one ever doing anywhere? What is one ever doing anywhere?
Christopher Isherwood quotes: It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life. It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: His boredom was like a nostalgia for the whole world. He was homesick for everywhere but here. His boredom was like a nostalgia for the whole world. He was homesick for everywhere but here.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: Despair is something horribly simple. Despair is something horribly simple.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it. I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying. Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: To say time is evil because evil happens in time is like saying the ocean is a fish because fish happen in the ocean. To say time is evil because evil happens in time is like saying the ocean is a fish because fish happen in the ocean.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: Most of the time, thank goodness, we suffer quite stupidly and unreflectingly, like the animals. Most of the time, thank goodness, we suffer quite stupidly and unreflectingly, like the animals.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor. Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: Sometimes awful things have their own beauty. Sometimes awful things have their own beauty.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: Feeling guilty's no reason for staying, or going. Feeling guilty's no reason for staying, or going.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: The sea only drowns its lovers. The sea only drowns its lovers.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: When you want anything badly, you always have to make some sacrifices. When you want anything badly, you always have to make some sacrifices.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination. Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: The past is just something that's over. The past is just something that's over.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination. The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: How delightful it is to be here.(Gym) If only one could spend one's entire life in this state of easygoing physical democracy. 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 quotes: I'm very militant, you know, in a quite way. I'm very militant, you know, in a quite way.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: There was nothing to be done with him and his kind - unless you were prepared to shoot them. There was nothing to be done with him and his kind - unless you were prepared to shoot them.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: The pain of hunger beneath everything. At the end of all love-making, the dreamless sleep after the orgasm, which is like death. 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 quotes: (Only the very young are not ashamed to arrive panting.) (Only the very young are not ashamed to arrive panting.)
Christopher Isherwood quotes: What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament. What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: This is a tightly planned little house. He often feels protected by its smallness; there is hardly room enough here to feel lonely. This is a tightly planned little house. He often feels protected by its smallness; there is hardly room enough here to feel lonely.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: Everything in the room is like that: unnecessarily solid, abnormally heavy and dangerously sharp. Everything in the room is like that: unnecessarily solid, abnormally heavy and dangerously sharp.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: I'm afraid, ha, ha, I find more inspiration in the Marquis de Sade. I'm afraid, ha, ha, I find more inspiration in the Marquis de Sade.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: The other day I made an epigram. I said, Anni's beauty is only sin-deep. I hope that's original? Is it? Please laugh. The other day I made an epigram. I said, Anni's beauty is only sin-deep. I hope that's original? Is it? Please laugh.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without a cause. No one ever hates without a cause. The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without a cause. No one ever hates without a cause.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: I like hearing the sound of your voice, but I don't care a bit what you're saying. I like hearing the sound of your voice, but I don't care a bit what you're saying.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: She acted as a kind of rough and ready chemical reagent; in certain combinations she produced certain known results. She acted as a kind of rough and ready chemical reagent; in certain combinations she produced certain known results.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times. We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress. By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: I have had an unpleasant feeling, such as one has in a dream, that I myself do not exist. I have had an unpleasant feeling, such as one has in a dream, that I myself do not exist.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: If it's going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it's not a world that I want to live in. 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 quotes: The Quito telephone service is about as reliable as roulette. The Quito telephone service is about as reliable as roulette.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself. One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too. She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: It's gone!" he repeats, almost ecstatically."That's because you let it go," Jacob tells him. It's gone!" he repeats, almost ecstatically.
"That's because you let it go," Jacob tells him.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and ... most people's books are just variations on certain themes. 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 quotes: Like a long train which stops at every dingy little station, the winter dragged slowly past. Like a long train which stops at every dingy little station, the winter dragged slowly past.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength. George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: The gramophone keeps reiterating a statement about life with which I do not agree. The gramophone keeps reiterating a statement about life with which I do not agree.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: John Gielgud told us this story about Mae West. She was asked, 'Do you ever smoke after you've had sex?' She answered, 'I never looked. John Gielgud told us this story about Mae West. She was asked, 'Do you ever smoke after you've had sex?' She answered, 'I never looked.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: Beneath outer consciousness, two other beings, anonymous, impersonal, without labels, had met and recognized each other and clasped hands. Beneath outer consciousness, two other beings, anonymous, impersonal, without labels, had met and recognized each other and clasped hands.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: That is what War is, I thought: two ships pass each other, and nobody waves his hand. That is what War is, I thought: two ships pass each other, and nobody waves his hand.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent. I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped. Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: All right, we've heard your liberty speech. Does that include us or doesn't it? All right, we've heard your liberty speech. Does that include us or doesn't it?
Christopher Isherwood quotes: If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you. If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: After many a summer dies the swan. After many a summer dies the swan.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land. California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel. The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: Experience isn't any use. And yet, in quite another way, it might be. If only we weren't all such miserable fools and prudes and cowards. Experience isn't any use. And yet, in quite another way, it might be. If only we weren't all such miserable fools and prudes and cowards.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: In order to get the worst possible first impression of Los Angeles one should arrive there by bus, preferably in summer and on a Saturday night. In order to get the worst possible first impression of Los Angeles one should arrive there by bus, preferably in summer and on a Saturday night.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: No one ever hates without a cause.... No one ever hates without a cause....
Christopher Isherwood quotes: It's possible to commit art and entertainment in the same moment. It's possible to commit art and entertainment in the same moment.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent. Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: I was very pink and young and English; and quite prepared for a Continent complete with poisonous drains, roast frogs, bedbugs and vice. I was very pink and young and English; and quite prepared for a Continent complete with poisonous drains, roast frogs, bedbugs and vice.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: All the poetry in the world is in that face. All the poetry in the world is in that face.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: George feels flattered and excited ... He can't resist slipping into the role Kenny so temptingly offers him. George feels flattered and excited ... He can't resist slipping into the role Kenny so temptingly offers him.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed. I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.
Christopher Isherwood quotes: I always look upon the capacity to save money as little short of miraculous. I always look upon the capacity to save money as little short of miraculous.

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