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I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

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.
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Book Key Lecture Paper Read
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
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 think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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Ambition Thinking Trying
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
We’ve all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that’s all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it’s just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
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Believe Groups Looks
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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Criticism Easy Inspiring
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull People Project
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
The worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
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Century Over Worst
If I did things for the money, I’d have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and ‘Police Academy 6,’ which I was asked to write.
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Hot Police Writing
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
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 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 don’t know what people who I’ve never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things – but I’m proud of the fact I’ve remained close to everyone I’ve ever worked with.
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Nice People Thinking

I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

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