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Ben Elton

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
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
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
We’ve all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that’s all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it’s just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
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Believe Groups Looks
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Feelings Opposite Sympathy
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 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
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
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
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
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
I did not vote Labour because they’ve heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
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Baseball Oasis Vote
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
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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Beef Pudding Signature

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

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