#ex

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#back #cheerfulness #extra #height #inches

It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#been #body #extremely #human #human body

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#great #mentioned #mexican #mexico #novels

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#collect #existed #form #friends #graphic

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#anybody #doubt #else #extremes #greater

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#clothing #doing #exists #infant #know

It's never too early to involve your kids in giving back. And the more hands-on the experiences are, the better. ↗

— Soleil Moon Frye

#better #early #experiences #giving #giving back

Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#completely #contact #continuous #except #gave

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#actual experience #already #any #bad #based

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#beyond #existence #help #mankind #must