Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
BEN ELTONI exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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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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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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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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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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