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21e87db
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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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violence
vyvyan
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Ben Elton |
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99d9eec
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The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. 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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luddites
technophobes
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Ben Elton |
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bd66fd9
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No!" Jimmy protested."
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Ben Elton |
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6ca3870
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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Ben Elton |
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2d94f53
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Artists don't create society, they reflect it
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Ben Elton |
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ba5467d
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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. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as th..
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Ben Elton |
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You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Ben Elton |
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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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Ben Elton |
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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; it had nothing whatsoever to do with a man's emotions. But if that was the case, why did it ache so?
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Ben Elton |
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be3647c
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People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves
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poverty
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ben elton |
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e2f3bc7
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People had got used to the planet dying. They didn't care anymore, it had been lingering on for too long. The Earth was like some aged and slightly disgusting relative that just got sicker and sicker and yet refused to die. Requiring more and more attention, growing bigger tumours, bursting nastier sores and soiling its sheets ever more often. An embarrassment and an inconvenience, a constant reminder of family guilt.
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Ben Elton |
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243d764
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When the phone rings at 2.15am in the morning it's unlikely to be heralding something pleasant. What chance is there of its being good news? None. Only someone bad would ring at such an hour. Or someone with bad news.
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phone
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Ben Elton |
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2251afb
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To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.
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past
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Ben Elton |
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11435ba
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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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Ben Elton |
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635cfd9
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Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable
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Ben Elton |
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d6f11c2
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And through all that dreadful darkness she had remembered him. He who loved her. He who still loved her. Who would always love her.
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Ben Elton |
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b0b63b0
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We've just lost our way, that's all. But what if you could give us a chance to do better? Just one chance? One single move in the great game of history? What's your best shot? What would you consider to be the greatest mistake in world history and, more to the point, what single thing would you do to prevent it?
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Ben Elton |
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8460faf
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The reactionary point of view was always so easy to put, the complex, radical argument always so easy to put down.
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reactionary
progressive
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Ben Elton |
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b533911
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New York will always seem more real than anything Britain has to offer. It is strange that, although the majority of British people have never seen a skate-boarding body-popper, an exploding fire-hydrant, or anybody dunk a doughnut, these things seem infinitely more immediate and happening images than that jar of Horlicks which has stood in the cupboard for 40 years
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horlicks
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Ben Elton |
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51fb463
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You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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mugging
pension
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Ben Elton |
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ccd3962
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A society sufficiently sophisticated to produce the internal combustion engine has not had the sophistication to develop cheap and efficient public transport?' 'Yes, boss... it's true. There's hardly any buses, the trains are hopelessly underfunded, and hence the entire population is stuck in traffic
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transport
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Ben Elton |
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9a473b5
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It's a curse to have a mind if it is illegal to use it. It's a curse to have intelligence if you are forced to cloak it in a lifetime of wilful stupidity.
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Ben Elton |
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As long as he lived Coleridge did not believe he would understand how a single race of beings could include both Jesus Christ and the sort of people who would download a video of a young woman being murdered. He rather supposed that had been the Messiah's point, but that didn't make it any easier to understand or accept.
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Ben Elton |
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f5e5c74
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What the matter wit' your momma? She only know one name?' Stone
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Ben Elton |
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a9b1b70
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You... you don't look like a Jew,' she heard him mumble. 'What does a Jew look like, you fatuous bastard'? - 'Do you think I should have a nose like a boat hook, you stupid old prick!
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jewish
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Ben Elton |
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b677eec
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H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma and ignorance.
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Ben Elton |
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3b10111
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Screw humanity. I don't give the whole stinking bunch of us more than a couple of generations and good riddance. The universe is better off without us.
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Ben Elton |
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e28638c
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I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed
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people
life
project
reform
psychology
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Ben Elton |
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1055228
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A time when the miracles of technology were still virile and exciting: steam engines and flying machines, not smart phones and cosmetic surgery. When there were still wildernesses left to explore and mountains left unclimbed.
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Ben Elton |
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She spoke loudly in order to be heard above the noise of personal communitainers that were thudding and banging all around them. Some people used earphones, some didn't, clearly believing that as many people as possible should be given the opportunity to appreciate their musical taste. That, combined with the mass leakage from the headsets, created a terrible din and even discreet private conversations had to be conducted at a yell.
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earphones
musical-taste
thudding
yell
heard
conversations
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Ben Elton |
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abc92fd
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Inogda luchshe vse ostavit' kak est'. Vremia - ne prialka. Vremia - priazha.
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time
time-travel
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Ben Elton |
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ironies. Hubris, pride, comes before a fall. When
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Ben Elton |
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She wondered if perhaps it was something to do with marking their territory. Like dripping on the floor.
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Ben Elton |
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Scarcely a year after Hitler had been handed power, something of what he had always claimed about the Jews had actually come to pass. He said they were different. And they had become different. He had accused them of being furtive and sneaky. And they had become furtive and sneaky. Covering up. Lying low. Watching the door. Hiding away. Survival rats. Constantly nervous, trying to blend in, avoiding people's
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Ben Elton |
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Dinner? You want to eat with me?' 'That's right, a Jew and queer, eh? The SS would love that, wouldn't they? Perhaps we can plot an assassination attempt.
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Ben Elton |
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Professor Sengupta had the self-satisfied habit common to many academics of pretending an intellectual equality with his audience in order to happily demonstrate his own superiority.
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Ben Elton |
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d0e9ace
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I don't want to wait. I want to learn. I only have the rest of my life left and I need to make a start.
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Ben Elton |
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Kaiser's memorial church, along the Kantstrasse, where mobs of youths were starting
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Ben Elton |
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2ebf435
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Tears began to fall on the notes Frieda
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Ben Elton |
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dfa667e
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gothic nightmares.
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Ben Elton |
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The massive machine bore down on them. Nearly fourteen feet long and six wide, it seemed to completely fill the bridge. Almost a ton and a half of wood, glass, rubber, brass and steel, a monster, roaring and trumpeting as it approached its kill, the great shining black fender arches framing its huge goggling eyes. The thrusting tusks of its sprung-leaf suspension threatened to skewer any soft flesh and young bone that lay in its path. Black..
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Ben Elton |
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Why do you still care about those people, Frieda?' he asked. 'Do they care about you?' 'Wolf, I'm a doctor. I do not require my commitment to be reciprocal.
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Ben Elton |
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In my experience, if you look people in the eye they usually mind their own business
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Ben Elton |
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2918811
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Lies are as important as truth, for without lies, the truth is worthless.
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Ben Elton |