Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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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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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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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 don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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