Quotes from book
Making History

Name: Making History
Author: Stephen Fry

Making History is the third novel by Stephen Fry. The plot involves the creation of an alternative historical time line, one where Adolf Hitler never existed. While most of the book is written in standard prose, a couple of chapters are written in the format of a screenplay. The book won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History.

“Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else”

Stephen Fry book Making History

Source: Making History

“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.”

Stephen Fry book Making History

Source: Making History

“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?”

Stephen Fry book Making History

Source: Making History

“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.”

Stephen Fry book Making History

Source: Making History