It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
STEPHEN FRYSomehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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 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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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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You 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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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