I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
STEPHEN FRYPhilosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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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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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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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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