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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.

Ben Elton

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
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
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
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
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
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
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.
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Jealous Love Lying Unrequited
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 think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks 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
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 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 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
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 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
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular

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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