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Stephen Fry

I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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But Coward Enough Lazy Oddly
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
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
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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Anybody Doubt Else Extreme Greater Have Mood No
I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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Boat Far Have Many Push Should Take Term Thing Too
Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Fight Five Full Love Octave Semitone Tone Word
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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Bound Happen Hard Labor Nineties Not Really Regret Someone Victory Work
Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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Every Hear Hilariously Odd Philosophy Sometimes Speech Thing Use Word
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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Altar Celebrate Freedom Language Lover Purity Tolerance Truth Workshipper
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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Being Great Happy Have Intellect Path
But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
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Back Being But Could Country Durect Go Great Hero However I Love People Person Time
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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Email Exhaus Know Letter Most Phone Ring Someone Something Time You
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
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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Code Country Dimechan Ethnical Life Live No Offer Particular People Person Standard
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
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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Creation Every Experience Fruit Gardener Insult Leat Once Taste

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