I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
STEPHEN FRYThere 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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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 don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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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 get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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