If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
STEPHEN FRYI shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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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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