Christopher Isherwood Zitate

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“I feel it's so easy to condemn this country [the United States]; but they don't understand that this is where the mistakes are being made — and made first, so that we're going to get the answers first.”

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Christopher Isherwood

The Paris Review interview (1973)

“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.”

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Christopher Isherwood buch Christopher and His Kind

Quelle: Christopher and His Kind (1976), p. 336

“I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.”

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Christopher Isherwood

The Paris Review interview (1973)

“The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.”

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Christopher Isherwood

"Los Angeles", p. 160
Exhumations (1966)

“I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews not because they really disliked them but because it was the thing.”

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Christopher Isherwood

The Paris Review interview (1973)