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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed

Ben Elton

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
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
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
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
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
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
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
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality 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
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
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
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.
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Blood Heart Men
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 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 see dull people as projects … to be reformed

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