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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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Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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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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If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That is the absolutely staggering to me misapprehension.
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I think faith in each other is much harder than faith in God...
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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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I don't believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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