His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and h… - Christopher Isherwood

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His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite naïve about most kinds of experience; he fears it and yet is wildly eager for it. To reassure himself, he converts it into epic myth as fast as it happens. He is forever play-acting.

Christopher Isherwood

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

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