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• That's alright," said Hugo. "I've got some wine" Which was about all he seemed to have. He poured out two mugfuls. "Very nice," said Adrian, sipping appreciatively. "I wonder how they got the cat to sit on the bottle." "It's cheap, that's the main thing.

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  Nice, Wine, Cat

  Stephen Fry (2003). “The Liar”, p.97, Soho Press

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• I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are of importance to me. ‘None of these are of importance,’ I wrote there, you’ll notice – the old pedantic me would have insisted on “none of them is of importance”. Well I’m glad to say I’ve outgrown that silly approach to language

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  Silly, Language, Distinction

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• 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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  Gay, Kissing, Thinking

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• If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words—strike that, I love words—and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too.

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  Song, Smart, Mad

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• There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.

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  People, Limits, Decent

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.82, Soho Press

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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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  Sorry, Heaven, Language Development

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• The service took place on one of those afternoons that occur only in the past.

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  Past, Afternoon

  Stephen Fry (1994). “The Hippopotamus”, Soho PressInc

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• When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder meets pleasure the result is a Triumph. Dr Grordbort is the future. And the past. Which makes an ideal present.

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  Adventure, Past, Triumph

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• I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as I expected the obvious and the ill-concealed to be hidden from view.

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  Views, Buried, Obvious

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.282, Soho Press

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• I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.

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  People, Unhappy, Able

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.132, Soho Press

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• It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.

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  Real, Thinking, Ideas

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• I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson.

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  Husband, Names, Married

  "A Bit of Fry and Laurie". www.imdb.com. 1987 - 1995.

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• You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.

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  Mean, Phrases, Wells

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• Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays.

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  Coffee, Book, Reading

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• I really do believe that there are those who would like and trust me better if they saw me weeping into a whisky, making a fool of myself, getting aggressive, maudlin and drunkenly out of control. I have never found those states in others anything other than tiring, awkward, embarrassing and fantastically dull, but I am quite sure that people would cherish a view of me in that condition at least once in a while.

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  Believe, Views, People

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.223, The Overlook Press

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• It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

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  Phones, Want Something, Knowing

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• Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.

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  Drinking, Frogs, Firsts

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.32, The Overlook Press

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• You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture as the poet put it, but it stays with you like a good acid trip.

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  Firsts, Fine, Rapture

  "First Love Is Always Unrequited". Big think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold.

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  Revenge, Animated Series, Kill Bill

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• Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.

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  Misunderstood, Mind, Used

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.204, The Overlook Press

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• Most of the problem I see amongst friends and I've experienced amongst myself is when people haven't accommodated the inequality that they want, they haven't understood that their partner wants to give more love and receive less or they haven't understood that their partner wants to receive more, but sort of give less.

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  People, Giving, Want

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Where LGBT and mental health issues collide is over stigma. And stigma is society's problem not the problem of the LGBT or mental health community. What we have to deal with is the ignorance, fear and prejudice that blight the lives of those who have nothing wrong with them in any moral or transgressive sense. It is society that is ill.

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  Ignorance, Issues, Community

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• I met too frankly preposterous, if it weren't for their banal evil, politicians and pastors who told knowing lies about the evils of homosexuality in order to attract bigger flocks to their churches and more votes and power to their corrupt councils. LGBT people seem to be being scapegoated more and more just as at the same time in more enlightened countries more and more freedom to express themselves, marry, be given official intersex status and so on is offered.

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  Country, Lying, Order

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• My general view is that best actor best suited to role should get the job. Obviously when it comes to colour and issues of ethnicity the choice is clear. But I do not believe you have to be transgender or have undergone sex reassignment surgery to be able play a character who has.Acting is acting after all.

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  Jobs, Sex, Believe

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• The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me; the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and the tragic and bitter end to it have always fascinated, appalled and attracted me since childhood. It was he who first in some measure vindicated my sexuality.

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  Men, Childhood, Important

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