Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
STEPHEN FRYThere 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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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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 get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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