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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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Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it.
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