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In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.


Christopher Fry

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STEPHEN FRY Life, that can shower you with so much slendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
STEPHEN FRY We keep our insignificant blemishes so that we can blame them for our larger defects.
STEPHEN FRY Nowadays a lot of what was wrong with me would no doubt be ascribed to Attention Deficit Disorder, t...
STEPHEN FRY The trouble with doing a thing for cosmetic reasons is that one always ends up with a cosmetic resul...
STEPHEN FRY Come to think of it I don't know that love has a point, which is what makes it so glorious. Sex has ...
STEPHEN FRY I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as...
STEPHEN FRY There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into wh...
STEPHEN FRY Music is everything and nothing. It is useless and no limit can be set on its use. Music takes me to...
STEPHEN FRY Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
STEPHEN FRY Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their...
STEPHEN FRY I'm not even tone deaf, that's the arse-mothering, fuck-nosed, bugger-sucking wank of the thing.
STEPHEN FRY Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually ...
STEPHEN FRY Well I don’t know about you, but when I recall childhood pain, I don’t recall the pains of tooth...
STEPHEN FRY None of this is important in itself, but I feel somewhere that it has a lot to do with why I have al...
STEPHEN FRY As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement an...
STEPHEN FRY Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that ...
STEPHEN FRY Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me.
STEPHEN FRY I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less ...
STEPHEN FRY Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.
STEPHEN FRY I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the hear...
STEPHEN FRY And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again.

The sky was never the same colou...
STEPHEN FRY People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t
STEPHEN FRY It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, a...
STEPHEN FRY Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the wor...
STEPHEN FRY I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He i...
STEPHEN FRY Hell is not a place you go for your sins. It is where you are when you are not sharing the gifts you...
JEFFREY FRY To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily t...
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