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Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist. He is well known as half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, with collaborator Hugh Laurie, with whom he co-starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster.

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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.

Ahead, Awful, Despair, House, Looks, Thing

Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else

Clean, Everything, Life, Shining, Teeth, Young

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

Fame, Guarantees, Money, Refuse, Trashy

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Change, Happier, People, Reliable

P. G. Wodehouse. . . used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient of tossing his letters out of his window: his belief that the average human, finding a stamped and addressed envelope on the pavement, would naturally pop it into the nearest pillar-box was never once, in decades, shown to be unfounded.

Average, Belief, Human, Long Walks, Naturally, Simple

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

Enthusiats, Mind, Misunderstood, Mocked, Used

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.

Children, Dream, Mother, Oliver, Used, World

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

Doubt, Extremes, Greater, Mood

It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our permissive society and rude jokes, are obsessed. No, we have a healthy attitude. We like it, it’s fun, it’s jolly; because it’s a primary impulse it can be dangerous and dark and difficult. It’s a bit like food in that respect, only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese, and that in erotic terms is the Catholic church in a nutshell.

Attitude, Fun, Obese, Sex, Terms

I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong, so it's very hard.

Admire, Artist, Speak, Strong, Thinking

Why should I be depressed? I've got enough money. I've got a job. People like me. There is no to be depressed. That's at stupid as saying there is no reason to have asthma or there is no reason to have the measles. You know you've got it. It's there. It's not about reason.

Enough, Jobs, Like, Measles, People, Stupid

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.

Alright, Cat, Nice, Said, Sipping, Wine

I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say, 'Stop feeling sorry for yourself--and you will be happy. '

Book, Fry, Self, Sorry, Stop, Success

If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That is the absolutely staggering to me misapprehension.

Believe, God, Gods, Staggering, Thinking

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

Ballgame, Bedroom, Business, Know, Mba, Work

I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body; the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn't lust after Psyche.

Believe, Body, Dirty, Love, Psychic, Thinking

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth,. . . - are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

Greatness, Justice, Kindness, Truth, Virtue

Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".

Ecstasy, Joy, Locate, Pain, Sensual, Takes

Well, isn't it splendid & rather toffee?

Life, Splendid, Toffee

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.

Dare, Enemy, History, Jacobite, Memories, Realm

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