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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
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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
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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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Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.
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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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The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.
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Snooker is just chess with balls.
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John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli.
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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
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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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Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.
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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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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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Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.
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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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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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I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak them. I couldn't have stayed out of jail in most of them.
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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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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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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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