You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
BEN ELTONI don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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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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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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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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 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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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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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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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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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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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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My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
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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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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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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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