You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
STEPHEN FRYI get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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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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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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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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