“In the eternal lazy morning of the Pacific, days slip away into months, months into years; the seasons are reduced to the faintest nuance by the great central fact of the sunshine; one might pass a lifetime, it seems, between two yawns, lying bronzed and naked in the sand.” YearsTwoFactsSeemsMightLyingMorningMonthsEternalSeasonsLifetimeNakedSandLazySunshineLos AngelesSlipsPacificNuance Author:Christopher Isherwood
“The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a locked room long past midnight, is next morning translated, with the literalness of utter innocence, into the throwing of the bomb, the shouting of the proud slogan, the dragging away of the young dreamer-doer, still smiling, to the dungeon and the firing squad.” LongStillsPastYoungNextRoomsMorningStudentsProudBurningTeaInnocenceBombsThrowingDreamerLockedPaleCigaretteMidnightSlogansAnarchistShoutingDoersFiringDungeonsSquadStill Smiling Book:Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader Source: Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader
“Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what’s called at home.” HomeLyingNextMorningWake UpExpectedStaringWakingCeilingsReassuring Book:A Single Man: A Novel Source: A Single Man: A Novel
“What’s so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn’t any difference between people —well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If you and I are no different, what do we have to give each other? How can we ever be friends?” PeopleIfsGivingWellsDifferentDifferencesMorningLike YouMinoritiesPretendingFamiliarityPhony Book:A single man Source: A single man
