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Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.
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
Literary Critic
Poet
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Kogarah
New South Wales
Australia
Clive Vivian Leopold James
Clive Vivian James
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Amy
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Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.
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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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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 try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write phrases that people can't forget as soon as they read them.
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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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John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.
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First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.
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My wife and I just started listening to the late Beethoven Quartets together, an activity I recommend for all married couples, but that doesn't really mean that I'm finished reading.
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You can't be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.
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If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive.
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A luxury liner is really just a bad play surrounded by water.
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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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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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Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
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Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.
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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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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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A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.
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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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