This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
BEN ELTONFor 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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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 didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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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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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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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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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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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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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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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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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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