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.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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As 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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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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