Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
STEPHEN FRYAs 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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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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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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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