Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
BEN ELTONLeaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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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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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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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’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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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 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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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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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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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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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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