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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

Ben Elton

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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Book Key
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
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Feelings Opposite Sympathy
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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Silly Stupid Wish
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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Beef Pudding Signature
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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Ambition Thinking Trying
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’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
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
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
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
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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Exercise Hard Reason
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
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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Blood Heart Men

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