Christopher Isherwood Short Quotes

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The Quito telephone service is about as reliable as roulette.

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I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.

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Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

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What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

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You see, Kenny, there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked.

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

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The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.

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Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.

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The only difference was that the Nazis called it "sexual Bolshevism" and the Communists "Fascist perversion".

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I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

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George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength.

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She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.

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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.

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I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know what I'm about.

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A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary.

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I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.

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Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.

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I must honor those who fight of their own free willl, he said to himself. And I must try to imitate their courage by following my path as a pacifist, wherever it takes me.

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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.

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