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There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.

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Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a jelly.
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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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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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Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.
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There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.
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Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books
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The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.
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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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The email of the species is deadlier than the mail.
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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.
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I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn't lust after Psyche.
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If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.
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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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Hey-ho, it's raining inside: it isn't my fault and there's nothing I can do about it, but sit it out. But the sun may well come out tomorrow and when it does, I shall take full advantage.
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