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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

Stephen Fry

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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Armchair Down Home Like Myself Occasionally Shop Smoke Think Wander Write
Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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Because Collect Country Exist Graphic Intelligent Knew never Novel People Peron Person Personality Rate
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Arrive Better Child Christian First Hopefully Proof Terrible Travel
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
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
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
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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Extreme Ide A Important Intellectual Sexuality Show Some Wide
My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Educate Marvelously Parents People Were
I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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But Coward Enough Lazy Oddly
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
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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Always Bear Down Feel Human Being Hundred Let Ourselves Percent
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
I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Art Destroy Oneself Talk Television Think Want
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.
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Actor Been Direct Grave Have Long One So Twenty Without Writer Year
It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
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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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