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.
STEPHEN FRYYou 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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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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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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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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