Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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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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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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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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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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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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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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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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I’ve made a great living doing the things I want to do.
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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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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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