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Stephen Fry est un écrivain, humoriste, acteur et réalisateur britannique, né le 24 août 1957 à Hampstead .

Vedette de la télévision anglaise, il s'est fait connaître en tant que membre du duo comique Fry & Laurie dans A Bit of Fry and Laurie et Jeeves and Wooster avec son partenaire Hugh Laurie, ainsi que pour ses rôles dans Blackadder et Oscar Wilde. Il présente également le jeu télévisé Quite Interesting.

En plus d'écrire pour le théâtre, le cinéma, la télévision et la radio, il a contribué à nombre de chroniques et articles pour des journaux et magazines. Technophile, il tient notamment une chronique dans The Guardian. Il a également écrit quatre romans, des poésies et une autobiographie intitulée Moab Is My Washpot.

Le 27 juin 2011, Stephen Fry est nommé président de l'association Mind : « Cet organisme fait un travail vital pour aider tous ceux qui, comme moi, ont des troubles mentaux », dit-il sur la page consacrée à son investiture. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. août 1957  •  Autres noms Стивен Фрай, اسٹیون فرائی, استیون فرای
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Stephen Fry Citations

“Dieu n’est pas l’Auteur de l’Univers, c’est le scénariste de votre biopic.”

Stephen Fry livre Making History

Making History

Stephen Fry: Citations en anglais

“How to seperate the humiliation from the loss, that's the catch. You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being without someone you love or the embarrassment of admitting that you have been rejected.”

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Stephen Fry livre Making History

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“Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?”

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Stephen Fry livre Making History

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“there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.”

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Stephen Fry

Source: The Fry Chronicles

“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 all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it.”

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Stephen Fry livre The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

Source: The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

“Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.”

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Source: The Fry Chronicles

“Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.”

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“Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.”

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Stephen Fry livre Moab Is My Washpot

Source: Moab Is My Washpot

“I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself - simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it.”

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Stephen Fry livre Moab Is My Washpot

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“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me.”

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Stephen Fry livre Moab Is My Washpot

Source: Moab Is My Washpot

“Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".”

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Stephen Fry livre Moab Is My Washpot

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“Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books”

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Stephen Fry

Source: The Fry Chronicles

“Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more than anything, more than life itself, they even do it with movies these days.”

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Stephen Fry livre Making History

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“A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.”

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“My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.”

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Stephen Fry livre The Liar

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“Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.”

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Stephen Fry

Source: The Fry Chronicles

“Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.”

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Stephen Fry livre Moab Is My Washpot

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“Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.”

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Stephen Fry livre Moab Is My Washpot

1990s, Moab is My Washpot (autobiography, 1997)
Source: Moab Is My Washpot

“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 all the same word we use to describe… essence”

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“It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.”

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Stephen Fry livre The Liar

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“You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.”

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“In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.”

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Stephen Fry livre The Hippopotamus

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