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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.

Stephen Fry

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
STEPHEN FRY

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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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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.
STEPHEN FRY

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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
STEPHEN FRY

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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
STEPHEN FRY

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I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
STEPHEN FRY

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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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.
STEPHEN FRY

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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.
STEPHEN FRY

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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
STEPHEN FRY

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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
STEPHEN FRY

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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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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
STEPHEN FRY

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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.
STEPHEN FRY

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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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