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Said Quotes by Stephen Fry
- 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…
- My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one…
- 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,…
- If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize…
- At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to me encouragingly, 'Come…
- That's alright," said Hugo. "I've got some wine" Which was about all he seemed to have. He poured out two mugfuls. "Very nice," said Adrian,…
- Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the dead soul. 'I…
- I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An…
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- Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a… — Russell Baker
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