I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRYI get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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