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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 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.
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Night Past
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
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

First Little People
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
BEN ELTON

Psychology Special Violence
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
BEN ELTON

Hippie Self Thinking
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
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
BEN ELTON

Beef Pudding Signature
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.
BEN ELTON

Silly Stupid Wish
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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Lasts Opera Race
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
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
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
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.
BEN ELTON

Book Brother Writing

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