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.
BEN ELTONArtists don’t create society, they reflect it
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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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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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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 exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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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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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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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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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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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 don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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.
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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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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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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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