Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that…

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

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I know that my early life was at one and the same time so common as to be unremarkable, and so strange as to be the stuff of fiction. I know of course that this is how all human lives are, but that it is only given to a few of us to luxuriate in the bath of self-revelation, self-curiosity, apology, revenge, bafflement, vanity and egoism that goes under the name Autobiography. You have seen me at my washpot scrubbing at the grime of years: to wallow in a washpot may not be the same thing as to be purified and cleansed, but I have come away from this very draining, highly bewildering and passionately intense few months feeling slightly less dirty. Less dirty about the first twenty years of my life, at least. The second twenty, now that is another story. - View Quote Details on I know that my early life was at one and…
Sometimes there just isn’t enough vomit in the world.. (Once on Have I Got News For You and once on Q.I.) - View Quote Details on Sometimes there just isn’t enough vomit in the world.. (Once…
It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then like most clichés, that cliché is untrue. - View Quote Details on It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but…
(On libraries) What’s great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don’t have to steal it from a bookshop… You know when you’re young, you’re growing up, they’re almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they’re kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go ‘Oh!’ - View Quote Details on (On libraries) What’s great about them is that anybody can…
I think animal testing is cruel. They might get nervous and give silly answers. (From an episode of A Bit of Fry and Laurie ) - View Quote Details on I think animal testing is cruel. They might get nervous…
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. That is my religion, and every day I am sorely, grossly, heinously and deeply offended, wounded, mortified and injured by a thousand different blasphemies against it. When the fundamental canons of truth, honesty, compassion and decency are hourly assaulted by fatuous bishops, pompous, illiberal and ignorant priests, politicians and prelates, sanctimonious censors, self-appointed moralists and busy-bodies, what recourse of ancient laws have I? None whatever. Nor would I ask for any. For unlike these blistering imbeciles my belief in my religion is strong and I know that lies will always fail and indecency and intolerance will always perish. - View Quote Details on I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom,…
When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists. - View Quote Details on When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault…
I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday…mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me. - View Quote Details on I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy…
greasy, miserable, British and pathetic - View Quote Details on greasy, miserable, British and pathetic
My first words, as I was being born… I looked up at my mother and said, “that’s the last time I’m coming out one of those.” - View Quote Details on My first words, as I was being born… I looked…