Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
BEN ELTONThe Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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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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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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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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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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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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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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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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