I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
STEPHEN FRYIt 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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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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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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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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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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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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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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