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Literary Birthday – 26 August – Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood was born 26 August 1904, and died 4 January 1986.
Seven Quotes
- Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.
- Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.
- We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.
- The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.
- A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. It’s as though it had all just come into existence. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realise that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.
- I’ll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who’s in the entertainment industry does to some extent.
- One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.
Christopher Isherwood was a British novelist, playwright, screen-writer, diarist, and autobiographer. He was also homosexual and made this a theme of some of his writing. His best known work is A Single Man.
Source for Image: National Media Museum from UK, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christopher_Isherwood_en_route_to_China,_1938._(7893554712)_(cropped1).jpg
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Posted on: 26th August 2013
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Quote 5 isn’t by Christopher Isherwood. It was taken from the movie script of “A Single Man” but does not appear in the book (which by the way is not a first person narrative).
I’d also venture the guess that his Berlin Stories are more famous than “A Single Man”.