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Christopher Isherwood Quotes

Christopher Isherwood quotes about kindness

American Author August 26, 1904 – January 4, 1986

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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 life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite nave about most kinds of experience; he fears it and yet is wildly eager for it. To reassure himself, he converts it into epic myth as fast as it happens. He is forever play-acting. Christopher Isherwood
I must say that I have always felt that, in the deepest sense, we are all brothers. Class distinctions have never meant anything to me; and hatred of tyranny is in my blood. Even as a small child I could never bear injustice of any kind. It offends my sense of the beautiful. It is so stupid and unaesthetic. I remember my feelings when I was first unjustly punished by my nurse. It wasn't the punishment itself which I resented; it was the clumsiness, the lack of imagination behind it. That, I... Christopher Isherwood
And now an hour, maybe, has passed. And they are both drunk: Kenny fairly, George very. But George is drunk in a good way, and one that he seldom achieves. He tries to describe to himself what this kind of drunkenness is like. Well - to put it very crudely - it's like Plato; it's a dialogue. A dialogue between two people. Yes, but not a Platonic dialogue in the hair-splitting, word-twisting, one-up-to-me sense; not a mock-humble bitching match; not a debate on some dreary set theme. You can... Christopher Isherwood
George feels that, even if all this double talk hasn't brought them any closer to understanding each other, the not-understanding, the readiness to remain at cross-purposes, is in itself a kind of intimacy. Christopher Isherwood
Now, for example, people with freckles aren't thought of as a minority by the non-freckled. They aren't a minority in the sense we're talking about. And why aren't they? Because a minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of a threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary. Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood quote: "There was nothing to be done with him and his kind - unless..."
There was nothing to be done with him and his kind - unless you were prepared to shoot them. Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood quote: "she acted as a kind of rough and ready chemical reagent; in..."
...she acted as a kind of rough and ready chemical reagent; in certain combinations she produced certain known results. Christopher Isherwood

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