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Happiness is no respecter of persons.

Stephen Fry

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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Aspect Children Deeply Drive English Insane Kind Literature Love Person Probably Shakespeare Teach Thing University Want
Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Fight Five Full Love Octave Semitone Tone Word
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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Creation Every Experience Fruit Gardener Insult Leat Once Taste
I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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Believe Do God Not Would
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Arrive Better Child Christian First Hopefully Proof Terrible Travel
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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Adult Apparently Be Constantly Daily Emotion Group Hu Man Mean Oppose Reconcile Tension To
I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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But Coward Enough Lazy Oddly
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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Blackness Complete Direction Future Go Purpose Seem Sense Somehow
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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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Armchair Down Home Like Myself Occasionally Shop Smoke Think Wander Write
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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Boat Far Have Many Push Should Take Term Thing Too
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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But Happiness No Person Respect
My father was all brain and little heart.
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All Brain Faith Heart Little War
You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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Back Cheerfulness Extra Height Inch More Reason Yourself
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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Become Corner Country Don Quite Something Somewhere Stay Through Tweed Went Would
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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Bipolar Condition Disorder Go Mider Now One Severe Spectrum

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