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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

Ben Elton

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
BEN ELTON

Feelings Opposite Sympathy
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
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
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Natural People Waiting
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
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
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
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
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
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
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
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
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
If I did things for the money, I’d have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and ‘Police Academy 6,’ which I was asked to write.
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Hot Police Writing
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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