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An education without a Bible education is no education.
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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Kogarah
New South Wales
Australia
Clive Vivian Leopold James
Clive Vivian James
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The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that you have more life to reflect on. And I think that if I am better now - and I think that I am probably better than I was - is because that I simply have more to think about, more to get under control, more to understand.
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John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli.
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Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine?
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Whoever called snooker chess with balls was rude, but right.
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First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.
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Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvelous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can't decipher the cyrillic alphabet.
Clive James
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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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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The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.
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In recent years, perhaps encouraged by competition from McDonald's, the British hamburger has become a credit to the nation. At the time of which I speak, it looked like a scorched beer-coaster or a tenderized disc brake.
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I actually didn't like that feeling of being out of touch because what I do depends on being in touch. But it's fun to talk about. That's one of the real dangers of drugs: they're too much fun to talk about.
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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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It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.
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A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.
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Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.
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Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
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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.
Clive James
John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.
Clive James
I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.
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