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.
STEPHEN FRYBut happiness is no respecter of persons.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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 am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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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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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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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
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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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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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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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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