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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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New South Wales
Australia
Clive Vivian Leopold James
Clive Vivian James
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Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.
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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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