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.
BEN ELTONKingsley 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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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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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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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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