“Yet he was bored. His boredom was like a nostalgia for the whole world. He was homesick for everywhere but here.” — Christopher Isherwood, The Memorial
Tag: Christopher Isherwood
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“Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.” — Christopher Isherwood, Christopher and His Kind
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“Life is not so bad, if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.” — Christopher Isherwood, The Wishing Tree
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“In another moment, when I had drunk exactly the right amount of champagne, I should have a vision. I took a sip. And now, with extreme clarity, without passion or malice, I saw what Life really is. It had something, I remember, to do with the revolving sunshade.” — Christopher Isherwood, Mr. Norris Changes Trains
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“The gramophone keeps repeating a statement about Life with which I do not agree.” — Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories
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“A book can’t read itself to you. It doesn’t even know what it’s about.” — Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man
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“I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews not because they really disliked them but because it was the thing.” — Christopher Isherwood, The Art of Fiction No. 49, The Paris Review
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