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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.

Stephen Fry

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
I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Act Destro Oneself Television Think Watch
My father was all brain and little heart.
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All Brain Faith Heart Little War
I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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All Any Experience Passion Reasonable Sense Think We
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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Anybody Doubt Else Extreme Greater Have Mood No
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
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
My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Educate Marvelously Parents People Were
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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Cliche Like Most True Untrue
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Die Facilities Just Lose never Old Professor
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
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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Business Entering Good Journalism Least Many Morem Think No People Sewage Some Would
I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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Actor Being Certain Film Had Illusion Kind Lead
I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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Birth Book Elephant Get Give Go Pregnant Urge Way
You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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Down Fall Go Like Love Person Sit That Violently Wish Write
I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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Convince Difficult Fact Gay Known Make Relationship Screen Think Very Well Woman

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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