People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
BEN ELTONFor 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 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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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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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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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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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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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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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 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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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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