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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.

Ben Elton

I did not vote Labour because they’ve heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
BEN ELTON

Baseball Oasis Vote
I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
BEN ELTON

Being Love Lucky Writing
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
BEN ELTON

Leader Looks Trying
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
BEN ELTON

Fund Lady Old Pension
You think I look like a teletubby?
BEN ELTON

Looks Thinking
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
BEN ELTON

Lasts Opera Race
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.
BEN ELTON

Blood Heart Men
The worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
BEN ELTON

Century Over Worst
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
BEN ELTON

Dream Gears Wake Up
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
BEN ELTON

Dull People Project
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
BEN ELTON

Ambition Thinking Trying
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
BEN ELTON

Difficult Morality Thinking
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
BEN ELTON

Feelings Opposite Sympathy
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
BEN ELTON

Atheist Parent Secular
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!
BEN ELTON

Advice Looks Novel

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