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But happiness is no respecter of persons.

Stephen Fry

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 like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
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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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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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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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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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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 am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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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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