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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

Ben Elton

And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.
BEN ELTON

Book Key Lecture Paper Read
I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we’re losing rather than a celebration of what we have.
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Celebration Losing World
Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
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Silly Stupid Wish
I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
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Facts Giving Kind
Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
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Book Key
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Feelings Opposite Sympathy
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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Lasts Opera Race
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
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First Little People
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull People Project
If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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Love Memorable People
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
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Mistake Risk Running
I loved writing ‘Two Brothers’ more than anything else I have written. It’s the first book I’ve written that I’ve always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.
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Book Brother Writing

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

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