Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
BEN ELTONThe Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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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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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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 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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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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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I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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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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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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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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