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.
STEPHEN FRYAn original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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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 am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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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 don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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 don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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