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.
BEN ELTONYes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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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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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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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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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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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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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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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.
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