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Ben Elton

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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Lasts Opera Race
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
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
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
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
I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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Criticism Easy Inspiring
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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Jealous Love Lying Unrequited
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
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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First Little People
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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Advice Looks Novel
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
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
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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Facts Giving Kind
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
BEN ELTON

Psychology Special Violence

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

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