Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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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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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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