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

Ben Elton

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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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Feelings Opposite Sympathy
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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Beens Comedy Instinct
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
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
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
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
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
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
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
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
If I did things for the money, I’d have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and ‘Police Academy 6,’ which I was asked to write.
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Hot Police Writing
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
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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Advice Looks Novel
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking

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