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 ELTONAnd of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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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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And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. 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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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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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We’ve all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that’s all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it’s just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
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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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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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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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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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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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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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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