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John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli.

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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
Writer
Kogarah
New South Wales
Australia
Clive Vivian Leopold James
Clive Vivian James
John
Turned
Hair
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Mcenroe
Broccoli
Badly
Tennis

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Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.
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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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Young men especially - I don't know if young women feel much the same - but young men think they are immortal, automatically. They have no idea of time because they have so much energy and I was like that.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a brown condom full of walnuts.
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The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped.
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Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.
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Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.
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Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.
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Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.
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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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John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.
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The smartest move I ever made in showbusiness was to start off looking like the kind of wreck I would end up as. I was already aged in the wood.
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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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Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.
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