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All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.
Clive James
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Clive James
Age: 80 †
Born: 1939
Born: October 7
Died: 2019
Died: November 24
Author
Broadcaster
Literary Critic
Poet
Television Presenter
Writer
Kogarah
New South Wales
Australia
Clive Vivian Leopold James
Clive Vivian James
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Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.
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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
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The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London telephone booth to look like that it would have to be guarded around the clock by the SAS.
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Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.
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I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.
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A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.
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The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.
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Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgment and should be trusted with nothing.
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Snooker is just chess with balls.
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