Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

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• Christopher Isherwood:

  Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

• Christopher Isherwood:

  I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

• Christopher Isherwood:

  What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't

• Christopher Isherwood:

  I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to

• Christopher Isherwood:

  California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

• Christopher Isherwood:

  One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

• Jimmy Rushing:

  I liked roaming around by myself.

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  There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference i

• Jimmy Rushing:

  The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

• Jimmy Rushing:

  The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people