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Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is a British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director. He was a part of London's alternative comedy movement of the 1980s and became a writer on series such as The Young Ones and Blackadder, as well as continuing as a stand-up comedian on stage and television. His style in the 1980s was left-wing political satire. Since then he has published 15 novels and written the musicals We Will Rock You (2002) and Love Never Dies (2010), the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. His novels cover the Dystopian, Comedy, and Crime genres.

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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.

Firsts, Lecture, Littles, People, Possessions

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.

Hours, Lasts, Opera, Operas, Race, Six

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.

Baseball, Heard, Labour, Oasis, Vote

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.

Done, Living, Lots, Made, Want

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

Afar, Book, Hold, Key, Keys

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

Beautiful, Imagination, Match, Private, Real

I see dull people as projects. . . to be reformed

Dull, People, Projects, Reformed

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

Centuries, Century, Over It, Takes, Worst

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

Atheist, Parent, Parents, Secular

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?

Blood, Break, Heart, Logic, Men, Watched

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.

Book, Buried, Ignorance, Keys, Paper, Under

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

Dream, Dreams, Gear, Gears, Wake, Wake Up

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

Cool, Dictators, Leader, Look, Looks, Trying

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.

Change, Doe, Offer, Real, Value, World

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.

Perhaps, Silly, Stupid, Wish, Word, Yes

You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

Fund, Mugging, Old, Old Lady, Pension

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.

Celebration, Creation, Losing, Reminder, World

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

Artist, Artists, Create, Reflect, Society

I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.

Exercise, Hard, Like, Reason, Things

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

Criticism, Easy, Inspiring, Pushover, Respond

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