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All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

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Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
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Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold.
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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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The other man's arse is always cleaner!
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Entry is not equivalent to possession.
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Nudity is a deep worry if you have a body like a bin bag full of yoghurt, which I have.
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It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: We need a John Travolta film.
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...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.
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The email of the species is deadlier than the mail.
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Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise.
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Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.
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I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.
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I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something that I'm afraid takes incredibly hard work and we live in an age in which hard work is if not actively deprecated or denigrated it is run away from or ignored.
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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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