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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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I was a big pothead for a short period. That was what ticked me off that I shouldn't go near hard drugs, actually, because I would consume the stuff as if it was going out of style and it rapidly occurred to me that if I ever tried a hard drug, the same thing would happen, so I never did.
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She [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.
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The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped.
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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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You can't be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.
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People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.
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The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.
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John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli.
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Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.
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Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.
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Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
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