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 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 like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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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.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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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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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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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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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 don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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