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Stephen Fry

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“Goes on and on and on. I was then expelled from another one and then kind of another one. And then I left and went to London, left home, went to London. And the major problem there was I was in a pub. It was getting a bit chilly. I saw a coat liked the look of it. half inched it, stole it, and left the pub, and then discovered there was a wallet in it. Oh my goodness, and two credit cards. So I went absolutely nuts around Britain with these credit cards, staying in grand hotels and buying things and travelling and so on. In those days they didn't even have magnetic strips on the back of credit cards for you just to roll them on a piece of carbon to take an imprint. So it was very easy to use them fraudulently as long as you looked vaguely convincing.”
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“I was not prepared for the astonishing cataclysm, the catastrophe, the glorious catastrophe of love. It had never occurred to me that it would be what it was, which is silly because we grew up hearing nothing but love songs. What did the Beatles do? Go on about Love Me Do and please, please me, and money come by your love and hold my hand. And everything's a love song. And suddenly, when you fall in love, all those lyrics make sense. And you realize there's nothing else in the world, and nothing else is even slightly as important. And of course I was in love with another boy, and I was aware that that was probably not the right thing. And it threw me out of everything, really. I just stopped being able even to pretend to be an.”
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“rather than the prepscill's ninety, so it's a much less of a little nest and much more of a hoo but I was thirteen and so when you're thirteen as you know too well chemicals start to boil and bubble inside you and things begin to happen in your mind and soul.”
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“And through most of my prep school time, aged seven to thirteen is a prep school in Britain, I was very disruptive, I passed exams very easily, I tried as hard as I could to get out of any form of physical activity. I gave myself asthma attacks and all the rest of it in order to be put off games because I just hated the particularly rugby and the muddy cold, horrible things running and the collision of bodies and bones and was just so vile. I wanted to sit and read a book by the side of the field. And humour, particularly then as I moved to 13 and went to the big school, you know, the public school as it's known, though of course they're not anything but public, they're private. And that was scary because that's 600 boys.”
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“Experience, but so class locked I guess I was without really noticing it grew up in the countryside in a large house not Dunton Abbey, but you know we had gardeners and people coming in to clean and that sort of thing servants I suppose staff whatever word you want to use and it was deep in the countryside and the other boys that I knew very few girls, but I did know girls and even they went away to school So all the boys I knew were going away to school and the parents you met say when are you going off to prep school then Stevens? Okay, when I'm seven and they go that was it because I didn't know any other children. I mean that sounds monstrous but that's just the way things were you stuck to your own It wasn't outright snobbery or anything it just was this was the world into which I was born So you don't really question it.”
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“That was what happened as far as I was concerned. My father had gone to a similar school, my mother had bought it since she was four. But that was because she was a Jewish refugee in England and her father wanted to hide her away from the impending Nazi invasion. And so that was a particular reason. My brother had gone at that age. And, of course, by definition, everyone at the school was in the same boat. So you just thought that's what happened. I mean, if you take a child and put them in a cupboard between half past two and three in the afternoon and shout at them through the keyhole, every day, they'll just think, oh, that's what happens. You know what I mean? Anything you do to a child regularly is the normal world, essentially, until they see other children having a different experience.”
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“Less unpopular, put it that way. It was a boarding school. I was sent away at the age of seven in Britain, which is not a huge country. It's about as far as you can be from home there. My parents were in Norfolk on the east coast and I was sent to Gloucestershire on the west to a prep school from the age of, as I say, seven, which to some people sounds a bit cruel and weird to send a seven-year-old boy 200 miles from home and just have them there. But you have to remember two things. One,”
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“to a child, I never fitted in or felt fitted in because I was bad at all the things that are valued when you're a child. I couldn't catch a ball. I sort of did the sort of uncoordinated hand clapping method of trying to catch, which is always mocked just as you've done. The cry of Unco would follow me, short for uncoordinated and worse kind of words we certainly don't use now to describe her. Shall we say a dyspraxic figure in terms of physicality? I was just, you know, I was growing too fast, too tall and very thin, hard to imagine now. And I wasn't musically very gifted particularly, and I couldn't draw. So all I had was my passion for language, and I loved it, and I played with it, and I told stories, and I tried to make myself”
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“Well, to use the language of the time I was a disruptive deeply difficult, screwed up child, that's kind of the language they used then. And I think to give myself some, I won't say credit, I would probably in later years have been diagnosed as having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. I was extremely difficult to keep still and I found it hard to focus. I was, I'll say, vain as it may sound, I think intellectually advanced for my age. I was very quick with language and with speech and just seeing things and remembering things in particular. So I never had to revise. And so in that sense, I had a lot of spare time. But on the other hand, socially and where it matters.”
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“I was a deeply difficult child. My post turned me to a psychiatrist when I was 14. I started doing weird things. I was sent to prison. So the best I could do after a disastrous childhood, I decided, was now concentrate on getting into Cambridge, that changed everything.”
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