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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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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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Sometimes I feel if I was young again, I would wrap a bandana around my head like Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and I would become a pirate of the Web. And I would go around stealing poems and assembling into one spot like a treasure cave.
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Spending all my remaining money on a ticket to Florence was rendered needlessly complicated by the fact that none of the ticket-sellers had ever heard of the place. At last their supervisor showed up and set them straight by informing them that the city they had always referred to as 'Firenze' was in reality called Florence.
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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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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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Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.
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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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Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgment and should be trusted with nothing.
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His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of fruit going to a funeral.
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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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The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I learned to read German and later on I added Spanish, the standard European languages.
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Snooker is just chess with balls.
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Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.
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Whoever called snooker chess with balls was rude, but right.
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On the correctly formed pubescent girl, a Speedo looked wonderful. When it was wet, it was an incitement to riot.
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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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Mocking Hugh Hefner is easy to do, and in my mind should be made easier.
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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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Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.
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The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.
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