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 ELTONThe 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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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 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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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.
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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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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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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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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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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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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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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