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Book Quotes by Stephen Fry
- 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…
- A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.
- I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
- An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
- I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up…
- I flicked my eyes over to Steve again and saw him straighten. He would need a diversion just to start. “Explanations?” I bellowed. “Explanations? There’s…
- 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,…
- Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
- lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some…
- Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books
- This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
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