Nowadays a lot of what was wrong with me would no doubt be ascribed to Attention Deficit Disorder, tartrazine food colouring, dairy produce and air pollution. A few hundred years earlier it would have been demons, still the best analogy I think, but not much help when it comes to a cure.
Stephen FryThe stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them.
Stephen FryThere is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and contradictory nation that still makes my spirits soar and my heart leap with optimism and belief. If only they understood how to make a cup of tea.
Stephen FryIf you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.
Stephen FryI can understand the Greek idea that there are these these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to embody them, to personify them into a Athena or Aries or whichever god you want makes enormous sense.
Stephen FryI am aware of the technical distinction between โlessโ and โfewerโ, and between โuninterestedโ and โdisinterestedโ and โinferโ and โimplyโ, but none of these are of importance to me. โNone of these are of importance,โ I wrote there, youโll notice โ the old pedantic me would have insisted on โnone of them is of importanceโ. Well Iโm glad to say Iโve outgrown that silly approach to language
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