February 2012
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The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too,...
– The Ode Less Travelled
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Alan Bennett was out in the street, attaching bicycle clips to his trousers.
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– The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography
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Poetry is made of the same stuff you are reading now, the same stuff you use to...
– The Ode Less Travelled
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I suppose the thing I’d most would like to have known or be reassured about is...
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It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and...
– The Fry Chronicles
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Stephen Fry: All thoroughbred greys are descended from one horse.
Alan Davies: Jesus.
Stephen: ...no.
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It has always been true to say that we live in dark and difficult times, but it...
– Stephen Fry’s closing speech at the 2012 BAFTAs
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But as I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my...
– Moab Is My Washpot
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He wasn’t sure what the thing was that he yearned for, but one thing he did...
– The Liar
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That my nude scene in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows was overlooked by BAFTA...
– Stephen Fry’s opening speech at the 2012 BAFTA Awards
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Sex without smiling is as sickly and base as vodka and tonic without ice.
– Moab Is My Washpot
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The nothingness of music can be moulded by the mood of the listener into the...
– Moab Is My Washpot
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I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on...
– Moab Is My Washpot
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Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an...
– Moab Is My Washpot
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Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped,...
– Stephen Fry, January 28 2012, The Times, extracted from The Library Book, out this month.
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I should have known better, it was a Tuesday in February. Many of my life’s most...
– Moab Is My Washpot
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Horses are just stupid, I’m afraid, and every day they have to re-invent the...
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You read of Dickens beating his wife, you think, “how could someone who exposes...
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