“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
“Hollywood's two polar types are the cynically drunken writer aggressively nursing a ten-year-old reputation and the theatrically self-conscious hermit who strides the boulevard in sandals, home-made shorts and a prophetic beard, muttering against the Age of the Machines.” YearsMadeTwoSelfHomeAgeTypeTenConsciousHollywoodMachinesReputationLos AngelesBeardNursingSelf ConsciousStridePropheticShortsHermitsSandalsBoulevardMuttering Book:Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses Source: Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses
“Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small stove, squeezing past each other on the narrow stairs, shaving in front of the same small bathroom mirror, constantly jogging, jostling, bumping against each other’s bodies by mistake or on purpose, sensually, aggressively, awkwardly, impatiently, in rage or in love – think what deep though invisible tracks they must leave, everywhere, behind them!” PeopleThinkingYearsTwoBodyTogetherPastPurposeSpaceBehindsMistakeFrontsStandingMirrorsCookingTrackRageInvisibleBathroomStairsElbowsJoggingStovesLiving TogetherShavingSqueezingSmall Spaces Book:Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader Source: Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader
“I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily be the ones who best understand you. As if there weren't far too much understanding in the world already; above all, that understanding between lovers, celebrated in song and story, which is actually such torture that no two of them can bear it without frequent separations or fights.” IfsThinkingWorldShouldTwoStoriesSongFightingBitsUnderstandingToo MuchBearsLoversShould HaveAgreeAcceptedSeparationAbsurdTortureNonsenseYour Best Friend Author:Christopher Isherwood
“The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence.” TwoBookEndsLyingReadingOppositesEveningCouchesSleepyLying DownBookcases Author:Christopher Isherwood
