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Stephen Fry Inspirational Quotes (175)

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I think faith in each other is much harder than faith in God...
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Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.
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It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
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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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I'm afraid I don't believe there is such a thing as blasphemy, just outrage from those insecure in their own faith.
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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'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.
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Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.
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Philosophy is an odd thing... 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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.
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Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.
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All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness
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There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.
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...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.
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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 can understand the Greek idea that there are these these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to embody them, to personify them into a Athena or Aries or whichever god you want makes enormous sense.
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I shall sustain a massive erection, that’s what, and I shan’t be answerable for the consequences. Some kind of ejaculation is almost bound to ensue and if either of you were to become pregnant I should never forgive myself.
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I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.
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The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.
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I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something that I'm afraid takes incredibly hard work and we live in an age in which hard work is if not actively deprecated or denigrated it is run away from or ignored.
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You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture as the poet put it, but it stays with you like a good acid trip.
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