Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.
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Thank you for your input; I can tell you are struggling towards being interesting.
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I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.
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The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and deaf to language development do you have to be? If you don’t like nouns becoming verbs, then for heaven’s sake avoid Shakespeare who made a doing-word out of a thing-word every chance he got. He TABLED the motion and CHAIRED the meeting in which nouns were made verbs
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
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There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.
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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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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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Not one word of the following is true
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I do like being surprised by directors and producers and being offered parts I would never have considered, including parts that aren't necessarily obvious but which would test me.
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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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I found it all about as arousing as a Tupperware party.
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I've always been aware of my sexuality, but I never quite knew what it meant.
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Things are always worse in the steady watches of the night.
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I do believe that almost everything I do is based on my feelings, not on my intellect. Though But we won't chase ourselves up the particular sentiment, or we'll get lost.
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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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We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.