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 ELTONI 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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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I did not vote Labour because they’ve heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
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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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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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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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!
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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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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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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 think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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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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