Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
STEPHEN FRYYou 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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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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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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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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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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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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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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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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