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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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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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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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All the cold-reading clairvoyants and the nonsensical astrologers and absurd ESP merchants and other such people who talk about vibrations and energies.... God, if there's a word that drives me mad it's energy used in a nonsensical way-don't get me started!
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The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.
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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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I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away.
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Well, isn't it splendid & rather toffee?
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And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.
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Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.
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If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation depression just is, like the weather.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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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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