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People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

Ben Elton

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
BEN ELTON

Ambition Thinking Trying
Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
BEN ELTON

Book Key
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
BEN ELTON

Atheist Parent Secular
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.
BEN ELTON

Celebration Losing World
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
BEN ELTON

Mistake Risk Running
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
BEN ELTON

Difficult Morality Thinking
You think I look like a teletubby?
BEN ELTON

Looks Thinking
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
BEN ELTON

Dull People Project
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.
BEN ELTON

Night Past
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
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.
BEN ELTON

Doe Real World
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
BEN ELTON

Lasts Opera Race
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
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 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.
BEN ELTON

Nice People 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.
BEN ELTON

Baseball Oasis Vote

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