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- 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…
- Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you…
- You can't just say there is a God because well, the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children. You have…
- I suppose the thing I most would have liked to have known or been reassured about is that in the world, what counts more than…
- If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the…
- What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a…
- I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
- It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as…
- Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.
- Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
- As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll…
- But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of…
- I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on…
- If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that…
- I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music is still okay,…
- No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
- We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are…
- I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are…
- It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my…
- To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after…
- As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I…
- It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that…
- I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do…
- The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible…
- It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle