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Chalmers, thanks to Baudelaire, knew all about Taffreuse Juive, opium, absinthe, negresses, Lesbos and the metamorphoses of the vampire ... Needless to say, Chalmers and myself were both virgins, in every possible meaning of the word.Christopher Isherwood
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... he couldn't, as a respectable master in an English public school, have taken us to a brothel. Yet how I wish he had! His introduction to sexual experience would, I feel sure, have been a masterpiece of tact; it might well have speeded up our development by a good five years.Christopher Isherwood
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It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.Christopher Isherwood
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If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.Christopher Isherwood