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I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.

Ben Elton

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Feelings Opposite Sympathy
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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Lasts Opera Race
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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Century Over Worst
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
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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Night Past
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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Criticism Easy Inspiring
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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Book Key
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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Ambition Thinking Trying
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull People Project
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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Book Key Lecture Paper Read
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
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Doe Real World
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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Advice Looks Novel
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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Silly Stupid Wish
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.

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