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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it

Ben Elton

I did not vote Labour because they’ve heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
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Baseball Oasis Vote
Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.
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Blood Heart Men
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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Natural People Waiting
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
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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Hippie Self Thinking
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
For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you’ll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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Night Past
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
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
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
Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY.
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Jealous Love Lying Unrequited
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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Exercise Hard Reason
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
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
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
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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