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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it

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
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
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
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 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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Facts Giving Kind
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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Beef Pudding Signature
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull People Project
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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Mistake Risk Running
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 think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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Ambition Thinking Trying
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
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
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
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
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

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