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.
STEPHEN FRYOld Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
STEPHEN FRYGenerally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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 FRYTaste 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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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.
STEPHEN FRYPersonally, 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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
STEPHEN FRYOh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
STEPHEN FRYChristmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
STEPHEN FRYI’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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 FRYIt 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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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.
STEPHEN FRYWhen 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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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.
STEPHEN FRYYou 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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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.
STEPHEN FRYIt 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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
STEPHEN FRYSomehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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 FRYI 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.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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