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My father was all brain and little heart.

Stephen Fry

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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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Cliche Like Most True Untrue
I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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Convince Difficult Fact Gay Known Make Relationship Screen Think Very Well Woman
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 don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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You 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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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.

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