You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
BEN ELTONIf 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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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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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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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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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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.
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