I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
STEPHEN FRYHaving a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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’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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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