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Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.
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I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.
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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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The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies.
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I now accept that it is looking increasingly likely that Tiger Woods is, in fact, straight.
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Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books
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Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching it. So perhaps, metonymically, the aeroplane is Australia after all.
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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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Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy. And suddenly, almost simultaneously, extraordinary discoveries are made.
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Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.
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You are who you are when nobody's watching.
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There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.
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I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look forward to. Zilch, zero, zip-all, sweet lipperty-pipperty nothing. The only thought that will give me the energy to carry on is that someone has a life which would be diminished by my departure from it.
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The other man's arse is always cleaner!
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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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