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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.

Ben Elton

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.
BEN ELTON

Doe Real World
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
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
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.
BEN ELTON

Book Key Lecture Paper Read
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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Celebration Losing World
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
BEN ELTON

Exercise Hard Reason
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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Baseball Oasis Vote
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull People Project
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
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’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
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.
BEN ELTON

Nice People Thinking
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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Done Made Want
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
BEN ELTON

Difficult Morality Thinking

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