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Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books
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Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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Hampstead Village
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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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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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Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching it. So perhaps, metonymically, the aeroplane is Australia after all.
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
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You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children
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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.
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No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
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I've always been aware of my sexuality, but I never quite knew what it meant.
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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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Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.
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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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How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?
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Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.
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Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.
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The other man's arse is always cleaner!
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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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Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.
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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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