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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

Ben Elton

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
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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Natural People Waiting
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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Being Love Lucky Writing
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
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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Done Made Want
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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Hippie Self Thinking
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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Blood Heart Men
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
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Mistake Risk Running
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
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
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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Exercise Hard Reason
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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Beens Comedy Instinct
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
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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Book Brother Writing
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race

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