Stephen Fry
Comedian
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I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
Happiness is no respecter of persons.
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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