Stephen Fry Quotes - Page 12

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• It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that a great many people know perfectly well how silly and camp and trivial their fandom is. They do not check in their minds when they enter a fan site. Judgement is not necessarily fled to brutish beasts, and men have not quite lost their reason. Which is all a way of questioning whether pop-culture hero worship is really so psychically damaging, so erosive of cognitive faculties, so corrupting of the soul of mankind as we are so often told.

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  Silly, Hero, Reality

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• You think homosexuality is disgusting? Then, it follows as the night the day, that you find sex disgusting, for there is nothing done between two men or two women that is, by any objective standard, different from that which is done between a man and a woman.

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  Sex, Night, Men

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.226, Soho Press

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• You think I have more than most people dream of? What other people dream of doesn't matter. I always had less than I ever dreamt of. All I ever dreamt of was family. A father and a mother. Most people don't even need to dream of such luxuries, they take them for granted. That is what I used to dwell on, alone in my bedroom. I dwelt as all children do, on the injustice. Injustice is the most terrible thing in the world, Oliver. Everything that is evil springs from it and only a cheap soul can abide it without anger.

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  Mother, Dream, Children

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• It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I do not want to know you' was, to me, hardly different from suggesting 'because you are gay, I dislike you

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  Cute, Gay, Racism

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.128, The Overlook Press

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• 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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  Business, Thinking, People

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• I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.

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  Lazy, Coward, Enough

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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. 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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  Stars, Quality, Ordinary

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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• History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier. History is memory; we have to remember what it is like to be a Roman, or a Jacobite or a Chartist or even - if we dare, and we should dare - a Nazi. History is not abstraction, it is the enemy of abstraction.

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  Memories, History, Enemy

  "The future's in the past". www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2006.

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• When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

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  Comedy, Backwards, Infant

  Stephen Fry (2010). “Paperweight”, p.153, Random House

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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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  Writing, Paper, Would Be

  Stephen Fry‏ @stephenfry, twitter.com. October 16, 2009.

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• I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look forward to. Zilch, zero, zip-all, sweet lipperty-pipperty nothing. The only thought that will give me the energy to carry on is that someone has a life which would be diminished by my departure from it.

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  Sweet, Zero, Long

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• You should give up.' 'Why?' 'For one thing, you'll live longer.' 'Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.

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  Giving Up, Should, Seems

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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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  Careers, Heaven, Training

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.72, The Overlook Press

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• Well, isn't it splendid & rather toffee?

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  Life, Toffee, Splendid

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• I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me.

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  Party, Mushrooms, Rays

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.78, Soho Press

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• And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.

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  Depression, Mean, Mad

  Stephen Fry (2003). “Revenge: A Novel”, p.158, Random House

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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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  Tweed, Cambridge, Grows

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• The other man's arse is always cleaner!

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  Men, Arses, Cleaners

  "Fry's puckish delight" by Phil Hogan, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2001.

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• We hold on STEVE's still smiling face as MICHAEL passes by. STEVE's eyes follow MICHAEL out of the room and then the smile disappears. It is replaced by a look of hunger and desolation.

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  Eye, Faces, Looks

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• The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a nutshell.

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  People, Catholic, Erotic

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• I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since.

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  Baby, Sorry, Breathing Life

  Stephen Fry (1997). “Moab is My Washpot”, Random House (UK)

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• That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

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  Sexuality, Gender, Homophobes

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.226, Soho Press

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• If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would call it embarrassment - not even pessimism - just sheer shame, embarrassment and confusion.

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  Optimism, Confusion, Emotion

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• Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

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  Writing, Cracks, Use

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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• Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the dead soul. 'I criticised things'. 'I beg your pardon?' 'You know, other people wrote things, performed things, painted things and I said stuff like, "thin and unconvincing", "turgid and uninspired", "competent and serviceable,"...you know'.

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  People, Heaven, Soul

  "Paperweight". Book by Stephen Fry, 1992.

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