It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
STEPHEN FRYHaving a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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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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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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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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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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