You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
STEPHEN FRYPhilosophy 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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I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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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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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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