I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
STEPHEN FRYSomehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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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’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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