Quotes From "The Hippopotamus" By Stephen Fry

Nobody seems to understand that in such matters the tact...
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Nobody seems to understand that in such matters the tact and sympathy should come from the one who is about to die, not the poor bugger who has to take the news. Stephen Fry
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[his healing skills]. .lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong, to fortify Stephen Fry
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But you can't argue that the world isn't in an unhealthy moral state."" Wouldn't think of it dearest. People lie, cheat, rape, swindle, kill, maim, torture and destroy. Bad thing. People also pop into bed together and cosy up. Good thing. If we think fucking is a sign of moral decay then we're a little bit stupid-stupid, aren't we? Stephen Fry
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If you spend your life on a moral hill-top, you see nothing but the mud below. If, like me, you live in the mud itself, you get a damned good view of clear blue sky and clean green hills above. There's none so evil-minded as those with a moral mission, and none so pure in heart as the depraved. Stephen Fry