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.
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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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 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 am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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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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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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