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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

Ben Elton

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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First Little People
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
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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Silly Stupid Wish
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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Hot Police Writing
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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Celebration Losing World
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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Ambition Thinking Trying
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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Lasts Opera Race
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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Book Key Lecture Paper Read
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
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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Night Past
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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Book Key
The worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
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Century Over Worst
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
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.
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Jealous Love Lying Unrequited
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!
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Advice Looks Novel
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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Doe Real World

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