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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

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Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays.
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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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