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...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

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Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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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 almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say, 'Stop feeling sorry for yourself--and you will be happy.'
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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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I certainly don't want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else.
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Alternative medicine people call themselves holistic and say it's the whole approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the mind as well. Use logic, use sense, use the incredible five wits you were given by creation.
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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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One of the reasons I love the online world is that although that exists in abundance you can choose absolutely which part of the online world you want to live in. You can make your own kingdom in that sense.
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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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If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That is the absolutely staggering to me misapprehension.
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You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture as the poet put it, but it stays with you like a good acid trip.
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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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There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.
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It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.
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Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books
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How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?
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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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I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.
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Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold.
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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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The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies.
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