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You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty.
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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Mahler
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Forty
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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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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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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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First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.
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Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.
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The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London telephone booth to look like that it would have to be guarded around the clock by the SAS.
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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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John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli.
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Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.
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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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Snooker is just chess with balls.
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John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.
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Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.
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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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She [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.
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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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All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.
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The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped.
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Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.
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