Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
STEPHEN FRYTo 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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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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’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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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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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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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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 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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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