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  1. Stephen Fry _ The Fry Chronicles

    I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief."And you so intelligent!""Excuse me?" said tom"Knowing those things are going to kill you" she said "and still you do it.""How differently I might behave" Tom said, "if immortality were an option
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  2. Stephen Fry _ Last Chance to See: In the

    Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.
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  3. Stephen Fry _ Making History

    Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?
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  4. Stephen Fry _ Making History

    How to seperate the humiliation from the loss, that's the catch. You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being without someone you love or the embarrassment of admitting that you have been rejected.
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  5. Stephen Fry _ Moab Is My Washpot

    I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.
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  6. Stephen Fry _ Revenge

    There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the number of Asians in England, by the existance of a royal family, by the volume of traffic that passed by their house, by the malice of trade unions, by the power of callous employers, by the refusal of the health service to take their condition seriously, by communism, by capitalism, by atheism, by anything, in fact, but their own futile, weak-minded failure to get a fucking grip.
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  7. Stephen Fry _ Moab Is My Washpot

    And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again. The sky was never the same colour, the moon never the same shape: the air never smelt the same, food never tasted the same. Every word I knew changed its meaning, everything that once was stable and firm became as insubstantial as a puff of wind, and every puff of wind became a solid thing I could feel and touch.
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  8. Stephen Fry _ Moab Is My Washpot

    People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can't
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  9. Stephen Fry _ Moab Is My Washpot

    It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.
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  10. Stephen Fry _ Making History

    Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else
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  11. Stephen Fry _ The Fry Chronicles

    I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each."
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  12. Stephen Fry _ Last Chance to See: In the

    Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance."
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