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.
BEN ELTONI try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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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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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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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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We’ve all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that’s all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it’s just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
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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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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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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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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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