Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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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 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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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