“Have finished Cecil Beaton’s Diaries. What a sad book! Not that it isn’t amusing and entertaining. But it’s sad because you feel—at least I felt—that this whole safari of Cecil’s in search of The Real Right Set is in itself a frustration; and throughout it, he seems so agonizingly lonely. He is an extraordinarily heroic figure. In the last resort, he has nothing except his work. No friends. No alleviating vices. No real faith. Nothing. And he knows that.”
Christopher Isherwood, Isherwood in the Sixties, Diaries: 1960-1969
Christopher Isherwood, Isherwood in the Sixties, Diaries: 1960-1969
 "Cecil Beaton's Diaries, The Wandering Years, 1922-39" |  "Baba Under the Dome" from "Cecil Beaton's Diaries, The Wandering Years" |
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