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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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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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...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.
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How to seperate the humiliation from the loss, that's the catch. You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being without someone you love or the embarrassment of admitting that you have been rejected.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.
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Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.
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I think faith in each other is much harder than faith in God...
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I can understand the Greek idea that there are these these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to embody them, to personify them into a Athena or Aries or whichever god you want makes enormous sense.
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A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them, and they're rather miserable most of the time.
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Perhaps the greatest definition I think of character and quality is people who when they're truly great rather than making you feel that tall they make you feel that tall, that they're greatness as it were improves you.
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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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All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness
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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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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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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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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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You've just had the most imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, which makes you, like, cool.
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We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it.
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Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.
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