I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
BEN ELTONThis calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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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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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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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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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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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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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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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We’ve all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that’s all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it’s just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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