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Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
Clive James
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Clive James
Age: 80 †
Born: 1939
Born: October 7
Died: 2019
Died: November 24
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Kogarah
New South Wales
Australia
Clive Vivian Leopold James
Clive Vivian James
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If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive.
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Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.
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The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.
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I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak them. I couldn't have stayed out of jail in most of them.
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Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.
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An education without a Bible education is no education.
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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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The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.
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I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.
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If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one.
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Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.
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When I was very young, one of my favourite books was Captain's Courageous and I suppose one of the reasons I loved it, it was a life I knew I should have had, learning all the different bits of the ship and learning to catch fish and rig sails and to -all the things that I never learned and I never learned the discipline, but I hungered after it.
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Dinner was meat - not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain - which the girls upstairs transformed into edible dishes by heating it in secret ways and adding bits of stuff to it.
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Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.
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Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves.
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