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I put my genius into my life, not into my art.
— Christopher Isherwood
Never mind. Never mind. In this brief life, one cannot always be counting the cost.
— Christopher Isherwood
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
You see, Kenny, there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked.
— Christopher Isherwood
Bacon. Eggs. Toast. The same things Angie had made for her the past two years. Every day. Without fail.
— E.E. Isherwood
No. Even now I can't altogether believe that any of this really happened ...
— Christopher Isherwood
What is one ever doing anywhere?
— Christopher Isherwood
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
His boredom was like a nostalgia for the whole world. He was homesick for everywhere but here.
— Christopher Isherwood
Despair is something horribly simple.
— Christopher Isherwood
I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.
— Christopher Isherwood
Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.
— Christopher Isherwood
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
Most of the time, thank goodness, we suffer quite stupidly and unreflectingly, like the animals.
— Christopher Isherwood
Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.
— Christopher Isherwood
Sometimes awful things have their own beauty.
— Christopher Isherwood
Feeling guilty's no reason for staying, or going.
— Christopher Isherwood
The sea only drowns its lovers.
— Christopher Isherwood
We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.
— Christopher Isherwood
When you want anything badly, you always have to make some sacrifices.
— Christopher Isherwood
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.
— Christopher Isherwood
The past is just something that's over.
— Christopher Isherwood
The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.
— Christopher Isherwood
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
I'm very militant, you know, in a quite way.
— Christopher Isherwood
There was nothing to be done with him and his kind - unless you were prepared to shoot them.
— Christopher Isherwood
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
(Only the very young are not ashamed to arrive panting.)
— Christopher Isherwood
What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
— Christopher Isherwood
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
Everything in the room is like that: unnecessarily solid, abnormally heavy and dangerously sharp.
— Christopher Isherwood
I'm afraid, ha, ha, I find more inspiration in the Marquis de Sade.
— Christopher Isherwood
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
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
I like hearing the sound of your voice, but I don't care a bit what you're saying.
— Christopher Isherwood
She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.
— Christopher Isherwood
The Quito telephone service is about as reliable as roulette.
— Christopher Isherwood
George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength.
— Christopher Isherwood
It's gone!" he repeats, almost ecstatically.
"That's because you let it go," Jacob tells him. — Christopher Isherwood
"That's because you let it go," Jacob tells him. — Christopher Isherwood
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
— James D. Watson
I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.
— Christopher Isherwood
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
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
I have had an unpleasant feeling, such as one has in a dream, that I myself do not exist.
— Christopher Isherwood
We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times.
— Christopher Isherwood
She acted as a kind of rough and ready chemical reagent; in certain combinations she produced certain known results.
— Christopher Isherwood
By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.
— Christopher Isherwood
One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.
— Christopher Isherwood
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
Like a long train which stops at every dingy little station, the winter dragged slowly past.
— Christopher Isherwood
The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.
— Christopher Isherwood
That is what War is, I thought: two ships pass each other, and nobody waves his hand.
— Christopher Isherwood
I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.
— Christopher Isherwood
Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped.
— Christopher Isherwood
All right, we've heard your liberty speech. Does that include us or doesn't it?
— Christopher Isherwood
If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.
— Christopher Isherwood
A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about.
— Christopher Isherwood
Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.
— Ian Buruma
California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.
— Christopher Isherwood
I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.
— Claire Danes
After many a summer dies the swan.
— Christopher Isherwood
The gramophone keeps reiterating a statement about life with which I do not agree.
— Christopher Isherwood
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
No one ever hates without a cause....
— Christopher Isherwood
It's possible to commit art and entertainment in the same moment.
— Christopher Isherwood
Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.
— Christopher Isherwood
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
All the poetry in the world is in that face.
— Christopher Isherwood
Beneath outer consciousness, two other beings, anonymous, impersonal, without labels, had met and recognized each other and clasped hands.
— Christopher Isherwood
George feels flattered and excited ... He can't resist slipping into the role Kenny so temptingly offers him.
— Christopher Isherwood
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
I always look upon the capacity to save money as little short of miraculous.
— Christopher Isherwood