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Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
Stephen Fry
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Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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You'll often hear the phrase science doesn't know everything. Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.
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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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I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong, so it's very hard.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy. And suddenly, almost simultaneously, extraordinary discoveries are made.
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[...] I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself - simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it. It was alien to me and I to it.
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I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.
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If you have been, I'm glad you've stopped.
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Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
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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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I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.
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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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It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.
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