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The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies.

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Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.
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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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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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I certainly don't want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else.
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Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
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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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As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not function superbly... yes, beauty matters. Boy, does it matter. It is not surface, it is not an extra, it is the thing itself.
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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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It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
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This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
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Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
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You are who you are when nobody's watching.
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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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I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having.
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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 may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.
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Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else
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Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.
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Things are always worse in the steady watches of the night.
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