At one campus where I was lecturing, I asked a friend, "How… - Christopher Isherwood

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At one campus where I was lecturing, I asked a friend, "How many of my colleagues know I'm gay?" He answered, "All of them." I wasn't surprised. But, just the same, it was kind of spooky, because not one of them had ever given me the faintest sign that he or she knew. If I had spoken about it myself, most of them would have felt it was in bad taste.

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Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was a British-American writer.

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