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.
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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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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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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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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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
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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’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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