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 FRYChristmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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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 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’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.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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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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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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