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"You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height."
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"Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb."

"You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height."
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"When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel."

"I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance."

"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."

"It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue."

"Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them."

"I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations."

"I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop."
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