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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.

Ben Elton

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

Lasts Opera Race
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
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.
BEN ELTON

Natural People Waiting
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
BEN ELTON

Exercise Hard Reason
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
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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Beef Pudding Signature
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
BEN ELTON

Psychology Special Violence
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
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
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
BEN ELTON

Book Key
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
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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Facts Giving Kind
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
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

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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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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