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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
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Kogarah
New South Wales
Australia
Clive Vivian Leopold James
Clive Vivian James
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Forty
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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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Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.
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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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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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The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that you have more life to reflect on. And I think that if I am better now - and I think that I am probably better than I was - is because that I simply have more to think about, more to get under control, more to understand.
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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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Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves.
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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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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
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The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.
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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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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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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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The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.
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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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Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.
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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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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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Mocking Hugh Hefner is easy to do, and in my mind should be made easier.
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Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.
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