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Ben Elton

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

Lasts Opera Race
I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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Being Love Lucky Writing
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
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 think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
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
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
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
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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Love Memorable People
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 see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull People Project
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
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
There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I’ve made a great living doing the things I want to do.
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Done Made Want
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
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

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