Read it wisely, Little One, for the power of ignorance is great.
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[his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong, to fortify
Stephen FryStichwörter: strength healing comfort the-hippopotamus
It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now, they will say we, with our permissive society and rude jokes, are obsessed. No. We have a healthy attitude. We like it, it’s fun, it’s jolly; because it’s a primary impulse it can be dangerous and dark and difficult.
It’s a bit like food in that respect, only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese, and that in erotic terms is the Catholic Church in a nutshell.
Stichwörter: sex religion humour catholic-church morality-without-religion
It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper, richer, wider – and is comic, whereas The Great Gatsby is a tragic novel. And I think all great art is comic art.
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Stichwörter: art books humour tragedy joyce comedy fitzgerald
Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.
Stephen FryBooks are not holy relics,' Trefusis had said. 'Words may be my religion, but when it comes to worship, I am very low church. The temples and the graven images are of no interest to me. The superstitious mammetry of a bourgeois obsession for books is severely annoying. Think how many children are put off reading by prissy little people ticking them off whenever they turn a page carelessly. The world is so fond of saying that book s should be "treated with respect". But when are we told that _words_ should be treated with respect? From our earliest years we are taught to revere only the outward and visible. Ghastly literary types maundering on about books as "objects"...
Stephen FryWe hold on STEVE's still smiling face as MICHAEL passes by. STEVE's eyes follow MICHAEL out of the room and then the smile disappears.
It is replaced by a look of hunger and desolation.
Stichwörter: stephen-fry making-history so-adorable
MICHAEL
(standing up and stretching)
Gosh, Steve. I don't know how to thank you.
STEVE
(also standing)
Hey, don't thank me. It means you haven't got any excuse now not to get back to work.
They are facing each other. STEVE is looking into MICHAEL's eyes.
MICHAEL
(embarrassed)
So...
STEVE
(also slightly awkward)
Right. Well, I guess I'd better be...
MICHAEL, surprising himself, silently pulls STEVE towards him. He puts a hand on his cheek.
STEVE stares at MICHAEL, unable to move. The feeling of MICHAEL's hand on his cheek is like an electric shock.
MICHAEL
(whispering, hardly audible)
I mean it, really... thanks.
He leans forward and kisses STEVE on the lips.
STEVE puts his arms round MICHAEL's neck and holds him tightly.
MICHAEL suddenly ends the kiss and pulls away. He goes to the door, opens it and says, in a clear voice.
MICHAEL
Goodnight, then, Steve.
STEVE
(disappointed, hurt)
Right... sure. G'night.
MICHAEL immediately closes the door loudly, before STEVE has had a chance to leave. MICHAEL puts a finger to his lips.
STEVE suddenly understands. He smiles in radiant relief, pure love and joy in his eyes.
They embrace.
Stichwörter: stephen-fry making-history so-adorable sobs-can-i-cry-now this-is-just-so-cute-i-just-nope
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
Stephen FryFeelings are not something to which one does or does not have rights.
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