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Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.
Clive James
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Clive James
Age: 80 †
Born: 1939
Born: October 7
Died: 2019
Died: November 24
Author
Broadcaster
Literary Critic
Poet
Television Presenter
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Kogarah
New South Wales
Australia
Clive Vivian Leopold James
Clive Vivian James
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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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Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
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Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.
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John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.
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Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.
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I won't have to miss smoking any more. Nobody smokes where I'm going: It's like a row of restaurants in California.
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Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their time, they displayed gapped and tangled teeth in loosely open mouths. Gently shedding dandruff, they lurched across the lawn. When they stood at the bar they looked like Lee Trevino Putting.
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John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli.
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When I was young I never believed that Australia was anything else except blessed. I thought it was a little dull when I was young, but that was 'cause I was a snob.
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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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It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.
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An education without a Bible education is no education.
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Jimmy Connors likes the ball to come at him in a straight line, so that he can hit it back in another straight line. When it comes to him in a curve, he uses up half of his energy straightening it up again.
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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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I've only got a fraction of the energy I once had, but I think I probably use it better.
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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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Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.
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First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.
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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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I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!
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