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Christopher Isherwood

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If I fear anything, I fear the atmosphere of the war, the power which it gives to all the things I hate — the newspapers, the politicians, the puritans, the scoutmasters, the middle-aged merciless spinsters. I fear the way I might behave, if I were exposed to this atmosphere. I shrink from the duty of opposition. I am afraid I should be reduced to a chattering enraged monkey, screaming back hate at their hate.
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Diary entry, 20 January 1940, from The Diaries of Christopher Isherwood, vol I: 1939 - 1960, ed. Katherine Bucknell ISBN 0-06-11800-9, p. 84

 
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