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.
BEN ELTONYou’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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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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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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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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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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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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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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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Comedy will always be central to what I do, it’s just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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If I did things for the money, I’d have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and ‘Police Academy 6,’ which I was asked to write.
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