I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
STEPHEN FRYIt 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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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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’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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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 don’t watch television, 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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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 went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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