I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
STEPHEN FRYGenerally, we admire the thing we are not.
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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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