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Stephen Fry Inspirational Quotes (175)

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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 can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children
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Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'
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Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate
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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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Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise.
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I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.
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I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson.
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My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.
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You've just had the most imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, which makes you, like, cool.
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I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look forward to. Zilch, zero, zip-all, sweet lipperty-pipperty nothing. The only thought that will give me the energy to carry on is that someone has a life which would be diminished by my departure from it.
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And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.
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Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.
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Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
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The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.
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There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.
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Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy. And suddenly, almost simultaneously, extraordinary discoveries are made.
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Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.
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Nudity is a deep worry if you have a body like a bin bag full of yoghurt, which I have.
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People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t
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Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.
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Perhaps the greatest definition I think of character and quality is people who when they're truly great rather than making you feel that tall they make you feel that tall, that they're greatness as it were improves you.
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The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies.
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There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.
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