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 ELTONI 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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY.
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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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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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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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The worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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Comedy will always be central to what I do, it’s just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
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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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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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