I certainly don't want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else.
Stephen FryOne of the nice things about looking at a bear is that you know it spends 100 per cent of every minute of every day being a bear. It doesn't strive to become a better bear. It doesn't go to sleep thinking, "I wasn't really a very good bear today". They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment
Stephen FryIt's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.
Stephen FryA real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.
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