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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
Stephen Fry
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Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation depression just is, like the weather.
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Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.
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Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous but then I never would have known what I know now had I not.
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You think homosexuality is disgusting? Then, it follows as the night the day, that you find sex disgusting, for there is nothing done between two men or two women that is, by any objective standard, different from that which is done between a man and a woman.
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It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.
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It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.
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Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.
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The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them.
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In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.
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I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.
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We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.
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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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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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If you have been, I'm glad you've stopped.
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I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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