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A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.
Stephen Fry
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Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.
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But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate
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