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Quotes from Christopher and His Kind — Christopher Isherwood

1904–1986 England

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He might, in certain situations, accept them as allies but he could never regard them as comrades.

Christopher and His Kind (1976)

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

Christopher and His Kind (1976)

Once I have refused to press that button because of Heinz, I can never press it.

Christopher and His Kind (1976)

The Nazis hated culture itself, because it is essentially international and therefore subversive of nationalism.

Christopher and His Kind (1976)

As a homosexual, he had been wavering between embarrassment and defiance.

Christopher and His Kind (1976)

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

Christopher and His Kind (1976)

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.

Christopher and His Kind (1976)

Christopher, like many other writers, was shockingly ignorant of the objective world, except where it touched his own experience. When he had to hide his ignorance beneath a veneer, he simply consulted someone who could supply him with the information he needed.

Christopher and His Kind (1976)

Christopher would find himself able to believe — as a possibility, at least — that an eternal impersonal presence (call it "the soul" if you like) exists within all creatures and is other than the mutable non-eternal "person."

Christopher and His Kind (1976)

According to Christopher’s diary

Christopher and His Kind (1976)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Christopher Isherwood (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.