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.
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.
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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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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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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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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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 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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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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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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