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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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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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Doe Real World
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 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
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
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
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
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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Silly Stupid Wish
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
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
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 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 think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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Ambition Thinking Trying
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

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