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, because music is sound track. Ten, fifteen years ago, every arts student wanted to be a novelist or a playwright. I’d be amazed if you could find a single one now with such a dead-end ambition. They all want to make movies. Not write movies. You don’t write movies. You make movies.
Tag: movies-art
Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.
Stephen FryTag: death autobiography depression
I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.
Stephen FryI am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Stephen FryTag: truth freedom language tolerance
Like a Frenchman, far from home, catching a whiff of Gauloise.
Stephen FryNo adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
Stephen FryTag: humor understanding adolescence complaints
A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.
Stephen FryTag: humor
I also knew that he was the kind of anile little runt who, in foyers and theatre bars the West End over, can be heard bleating into their gin and tonics, "I go to the theatre to be entertained.
Stephen FryWe 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 all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it.
Stephen FryStop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.
Stephen FryTag: inspirational philosophy
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