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When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
Stephen Fry
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Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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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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I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles of his or any other age.
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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
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I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.
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There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.
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I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.
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Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.
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If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything.
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...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.
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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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All the cold-reading clairvoyants and the nonsensical astrologers and absurd ESP merchants and other such people who talk about vibrations and energies.... God, if there's a word that drives me mad it's energy used in a nonsensical way-don't get me started!
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The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.
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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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We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it.
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