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Benjamin Charles Elton is a British comedian, author, playwright, musical librettist, 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 The Beautiful Game , We Will Rock You , Tonight's the Night and Love Never Dies , the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. His novels cover the dystopian, comedy, and crime genres. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. May 1959
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Famous Ben Elton Quotes

“This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.”

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Source: Bachelor Boys: The Young Ones Book

“No!" Jimmy protested.”

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Source: Meltdown

“The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.”

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"Court, Hippies and Love at First Sight"
Stark (1989)

“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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"Airport Rescue"
Stark (1989)

“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.”

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"Dinner in Los Angeles"
Stark (1989)

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