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Whoever called snooker chess with balls was rude, but right.
Clive James
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Clive James
Age: 80 †
Born: 1939
Born: October 7
Died: 2019
Died: November 24
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Broadcaster
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Poet
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Kogarah
New South Wales
Australia
Clive Vivian Leopold James
Clive Vivian James
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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
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I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really missing something.
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