My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
STEPHEN FRYIf you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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