Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
BEN ELTONSympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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