Quotes from Exhumations — Christopher Isherwood
1904–1986 England
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The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.
Exhumations (1966)
There is no home here. There is no security in your mansions or your fortresses, your family vaults or your banks or your double beds. Understand this fact, and you will be free. Accept it, and you will be happy.
Exhumations (1966)
California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the land rush, the gold rush, the oil rush, the movie rush, the Okie fruit-picking rush, the wartime rush to the aircraft factories — followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful, moving sorrowfully homeward.
Exhumations (1966)