Quotes from Christopher Isherwood

The pension was run by a happy-go-lucky Englishman, who used to laugh at my industry and tell me I ought to go swimming, while I was still young. "After all, old boy, I mean to say, will it matter a hundred years from now if you wrote that yarn or not?

Bask? uygulayan çoÄŸunluk kötü olduÄŸuna göre, der liberal kiÅŸi, demek ki bask? gören grup sütten ç?kma ak ka??k olmal?d?r. Bu nas?l bir saçmal?kt?r, fark?nda m?s?n?z? Kötünün kendisinden daha kötü olanlar taraf?ndan bask? alt?na al?nmas? olmayacak ÅŸey mi? Arenadaki bütün H?ristiyan kurbanlar aziz mi olmal?lar?

Well, I think you'll find that the soft ones object to being cheated even more than the others. They mind it more because they feel that they've only themselves to blame.

I am a quite unnecessarily complicated piece of mechanism

Meanwhile, Ruskin has completely lost his wig.

he begins to feel this utterly mysterious unsensational thing—not bliss, not ecstasy, not joy—just plain happiness. Das Glueck, le bonheur, la felicidad—they have given it all three genders, but one has to admit, however grudgingly, that the Spanish are right; it is usually feminine, that's to say, woman-created.

Mont Blanc confronted us, dazzling, immense, cut sharp out of the bue sky; more prosterous than the most baroque wedding cake, more convincing than the best photograph. It fairly took my breath away. It made me want to laugh.

The couples were dancing with hands on each other's hips, yelling in each other's faces, streaming with sweat. An orchestra in Bavarian costume whooped and drank and perspired beer. The place stank like beer

Charlotte, meanwhile, has peeked into the oven and then closed its door again, announcing, 'twenty more minutes' with the absolute confidence of a great chef, which by God she isn't.

Remorse is not for the elderly. When it comes to them, it is not purging or uplifting, but merely degrading and wretched, like a bladder disease.

Osje?ate ih sve oko sebe, kako no?as pužu prema gradu, kao ogromna pustoš neprijatnog okeana — osuti gredicama bez liš?a i zale?enim jezerima i sitnim selima koja ostaju u sje?anju samo po neobi?nim imenima bojišta iz poluzaboravljenih ratova.

?udno je, ali se ne sje?am da sam se uopšte plašio, prihva?ao sam to. ?inilo mi se sasvim prirodno da svi treba da umremo. To je vjerovatno bio opšti mentalitet ratnog vremena.

Punih deset godina nisam ni sa živom dušom razgovarao intimno kao što sam razgovarao no?as s vama ... Da, ima u vama nešto što me privla?i i na ?emu vam veoma zavidim, a opet ta ista vaša osobina izaziva moje protivljenje ... Možda je to naprosto zato što sam i ja djelimi?no Englez, te vi meni predstavljate jedan vid mog vlastitog karaktera ...

If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.

Ima glavu kriminalca!" "A vi mislite da bi ljude sa glavom kriminalca trebalo pustiti da postanu kriminalci?" "Nipošto. Ja vjerujem u disciplinu. Ove bi dje?ake trebalo smještati u radne logore." "A šta ?ete po?eti s njima kada budu tamo? Kažete da se ionako ne mogu promijeniti, pa vjerujem da biste ih zadržali zatvorene do kraja njihovog života?

Baš me sad neobi?no zaokuplja moj novi roman. Misle?i o njemu, ja ?esto odlazim sam na duga?ke šetnje.

Cambridge exceeded our most macabre expectations ... the arm-chairs, the crumpets, the beautifully-bound eighteenth century volumes, the fires roaring in stoked grates. Each of us had the loan of an absent undergraduate's rooms - bedroom, sitting-room and pantry; all fitted up in a style which, after the spartan simplicity of a public school study, seemed positively sinful.

Smiješno mi je sada toga se i sjetiti: kada sam prvi put sreo Ota, pomislio sam da ?emo zajedno proživjeti do kraja života.

Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention – though we may lie about it sometimes, to heighten it.

It's possible to commit art and entertainment in the same moment.

Despair is something horribly simple.

No one ever hates without a cause...." Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about.

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