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Stephen Fry
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"Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive."
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Stephen Fry
Topic(s):
Travel
"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."
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Stephen Fry
Topic(s):
Experience
"But happiness is no respecter of persons."
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Stephen Fry
Topic(s):
Happiness
"I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself."
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Stephen Fry
Topic(s):
Art
"It’s rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it’s Hemingway, Van Gogh… Robert Schumann has been mentioned… Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath… some of them with rather grim ends."
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Stephen Fry
Topic(s):
Great
"Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good."
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Stephen Fry
Topic(s):
Business
"I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop."
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Stephen Fry
Topic(s):
Home
"Happiness is no respecter of persons."
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Stephen Fry
Topic(s):
Happiness
"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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Stephen Fry
Topic(s):
Relationship
"I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have."
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Stephen Fry
Topic(s):
Beauty
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