Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
STEPHEN FRYThere’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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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.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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