Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
BEN ELTONI find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I’ve made a great living doing the things I want to do.
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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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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Comedy will always be central to what I do, it’s just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
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