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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

Ben Elton

You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull People Project
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.
BEN ELTON

Beens Comedy Instinct
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
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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Lasts Opera Race
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 loved writing ‘Two Brothers’ more than anything else I have written. It’s the first book I’ve written that I’ve always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.
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Book Brother Writing
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
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 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
I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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Criticism Easy Inspiring
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
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
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
BEN ELTON

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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

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