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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

Ben Elton

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
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
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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Nice People Thinking
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
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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Being Love Lucky Writing
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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Beens Comedy Instinct
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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Love Memorable People
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
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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First Little People
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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Beef Pudding Signature
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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Hippie Self Thinking
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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Exercise Hard Reason
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
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
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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Natural People Waiting

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