Stephen Fry Quotes
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'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry!
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It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.
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I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.
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The laws of the colors are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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Half of the people in the world are below average.
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Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.
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The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.
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In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.
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Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.
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You don't want to be conscious of everything.
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Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
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All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.
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When it comes to football, God is prejudiced - toward big, fast kids.
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There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible.
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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
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If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
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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.
