“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”
Christopher Isherwood book Goodbye to Berlin
Source: "Berlin Diary" (1930) from Goodbye to Berlin (1939)

Goodbye to Berlin is a 1939 novel by Christopher Isherwood set in Weimar Germany. It is often published together with Mr Norris Changes Trains in a collection called The Berlin Stories.
“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”
Christopher Isherwood book Goodbye to Berlin
Source: "Berlin Diary" (1930) from Goodbye to Berlin (1939)