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I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know what I'm about.
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... notes on other novels by Christopher Isherwood
Goodbye To Berlin Quotes: I am a camera with its shutter open, quote passive, responding, not thinking. Where in another ten years, shall I be, myself? Certainly not here. How many seas and frontiers shall I have to cross to reach that distant day; how far shall I have to travel, on foot, on horseback, by car, push-bike, aeroplane, steamer, train, lift, moving-staircase and tram? How much money shall I need for that enormous journey? How much food will I gradually, wearily consume on my way? How many pairs of shoes shall I wear out? How many thousands of cigarettes shall I smoke? How many cups of tea shall I drink and how many glasses of beer? What an awful tasteless prospect! And yet - to have to die ... Sally lit another cigarette:she smoked the whole time. I noticed how old her hands looked in the lamplight. They were nervous, veined, and very thin - the hands of a middle-aged woman. The green ...
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