“You know, we all think we’ve just missed out on the secrets of life and that everybody else has got it, but the wonderful secret is that we’re all equally afraid and uncertain, and that that isn’t a bad thing, it’s a wonderful thing.”
Stephen Fry
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“An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.”
Stephen Fry
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“Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.”
Stephen Fry
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“It’s now very common to hear people say, ‘I’m rather offended by that’, as if that gives them certain rights. It’s no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. ‘I’m offended by that.’ Well, so fucking what?”
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“The short answer to that is ‘no’. The long answer is ‘Fuck no’.”
Stephen Fry
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“Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.”
Stephen Fry
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“You are who you are when nobody’s watching.”
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“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
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“It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.”
Stephen Fry
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“I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.”
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“I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.”
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“I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.”
Stephen Fry
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“I genuinely believe that the Catholic church is not, to put it at its mildest, a force for good in the world.”
Stephen Fry
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